Prodigious feats of labour and engineering built iron roads from sea to sea, as political leaders rose and fell with their railway policies, western settlement by non-indigenous peoples expanded, and economic scandals multiplied. ###>Pendant ce temps, les dirigeants politiques se succèdent à coup de politiques sur les chemins de fer, des populations non autochtones viennent peupler l'Ouest et les scandales économiques se multiplient.