The Canadian Pacific Railway is a line of railway which traverses British North America from the St Lawrence to the Pacific. One of the conditions upon which the province of British Columbia in 1871 entered the Dominion of Canada was the construction of such a railway. Since that time more than one act had been passed empowering different companies to go on with the work. Eventually, however, it was completed, according to arrangement with the Canadian government, by a syndicate of London, Paris, and American capitalists, being opened for general traffic in June, 1886. Commencing at Montreal, the line goes on to Ottawa, thence round the north of the Great Lakes to Port Arthur at the head of Lake Superior, and thence to Winnipeg, Manitoba, thence to Stephen in the Rocky Mountains, then across British Columbia to Vancouver on the Pacific. Vancouver, now a thriving city, owes its existence to this railway. The line was of great importance not only as a means of communication between Europe and Eastern Asia and Australasia, but also as a military highway binding together the great masses of the British Empire during the late 19th century. Research Canadian Pacific Railway
The puma (Felis concolor) is a large wild cat found in the Americas where it is often also called a panther, painter, cougar and catamount. Next to the jaguar, the puma is the largest American cat, and once ranged from New England and British Columbia to Patagonia. In the adult the upper surface is a uniform tawny colour, except for a dark streak along the middle of the back, and a dark tip to the tail, while the under surface is of a paler tint. he presence in the young, however, of a ringed tail and of spots on the body shows that the puma's ancestors possessed characteristically feline colouration.
Pumas vary greatly in size, sometimes reaching 2.5 metres from nose to the tip of the tail, the tail being usually about a metre long, but usually the body is about a metre long. The puma lives in low-lying plains and on mountain slopes both in forests and in treeless pampas where it feeds on larger animals, typically horses, sheep, deer, larger rodents, birds, rats, mice and fish. Research Puma
Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer. She was born in 1978 at Victoria, British Columbia. She was a founder member of the pop-group Nelstar, before leaving to pursue a solo career. Research Nelly Furtado
The Salish (nicknamed 'Flatheads') are a North American Indian tribe of the Salishan family found in British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon. The Salish are a tribe of plateau Indians, typical of inland hunting Indians. Upon contact with Europeans they engaged in fur trading and relations were generally friendly. They were visited by Roman Catholic missionaries during the 1840's and signed a treaty with the USA in 1955 which assigned them a reservation around Flathead Lake in Montana. Research Salish
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