Most of the labour used to build the Canadian Pacific Railway were immigrants because they would work for less pay. On the eastern side the largest ethnic group would have been Irish. On the western side it was the Chinese.
The Chinese immigrant helped build the Canadian Pacific Railway
The Chinese railroad workers.
No, they did not. The Japanese started to arrive close to the completion of the build. Industrialists, particularly in San Francisco, sought to replace the vacuum created when the Chinese went off to build the railroad.
the pacific railroad act helped fund the building of the railroad and it gave the railroad company land.
No. They wanted to build the railroad and it was a job. The railroad connected the east to the west.
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Mostly the Americans and the Chinese helped build the first Continental Railroad in 1869.
The Chinese people helped build the Central Pacific railroad. The Central Pacific railroad was built during 1863 to 1885.
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The Central Pacific, California Central Railroad, and the San Jose Railway.
Around 10,000 Chinese workers helped build the Central Pacific Railroad as part of the Transcontinental Railroad project in the United States during the 1860s. They played a significant role in the construction of the railroad, especially through the difficult and dangerous work in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Mostly Irish on the UP, mainly Chinese on the Central Pacific.
Whomever happened to be the latest bunch ...the most famous were the Chinese and the Irish.
Irish immigrants worked on the union pacific railroad to help build west from Omaha Nebraska. The Union Pacific was in fierce competition with the central pacific railroad so the irish sometimes would sabotage the work of the central pacific.
No, they did not. The Japanese started to arrive close to the completion of the build. Industrialists, particularly in San Francisco, sought to replace the vacuum created when the Chinese went off to build the railroad.
It took 6 years to build the transcontinental railroad.
The Chinese in America helped build the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869; were part of the 49ers in 1849; and built the levies in California's Sacramento Vallery.
Chinese did most of the work from the west coast with Irish labour employed from the east