CROWSNEST PASS
AGREEMENT
An act passed by the federal government of the day and named,
"An Act to authorize a Subsidy for a Railway through the Crow's Nest Pass", contained the following
items:
A federal subsidy of $11,000 a mile ( $ 6,835 km ) of completed railway to a maximum of $3,630,000 or the equivalent
of 330 miles ( 531 km ) of construction west of Lethbridge is to be granted by the Federal government.
Federal cabinet approval is required for local and through rates on the Crowsnest route and for rates on CPR lines
and steamships south of the mainline in B.C.
Rate reductions will be made by the Canadian Pacific Railway on a variety of goods shipped westbound from Fort
William, effective 1 Jan 1898. These include a 1/3 cut in rates on produce and fruit, 20 percent on coal
oil, and 10 percent on various manufactured goods particularly important to farming.
Rates are reduced on grain and flour by 3 cents a hundred weight for shipments to Fort William and Port Arthur
( now known as Thunder Bay ) and all points east.
The Railway Committee of the Privy Council is given authority to grant running rights over the Crowsnest Pass
railway and its branches to other companies.
The federal cabinet can set regulations for the sale of B.C. Southern Railway Land Grant properties except for coal
lands.
The federal government is to receive 50,000 acres ( 20,235 hectors ) of coal bearing lands in the Crowsnest area
from the B.C. Southern Railway Land Grant - Robert D. Turner.
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