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[quote user="Murphy Siding"][quote user="futuremodal"][quote user="TomDiehl"] [quote user="MichaelSol"] The reasoning does not explain why we did not build a railroad to Alaska, if the reasoning were true, or to Hawaii, since anything ridiculous passes here as a justification. [/quote] Maybe you should tell us how good our relations were with Canada in this time period. So good that they'd let the US build a railroad across their territory from Washington to Alaska? The reason is, the government owned the land for the transcontinental, they didn't own Canada. [/quote] Ummmm, I think the US did build a highway up the whole of Western Canada, if I'm not mistaken! Does this mean that we really did own Canada?[:-,] [/quote]      Wasn't that sort of a *road grant* sort of project?  The U.S. built the road, and pretty much *gave* it to Canada.  Now Dave, according to your theory ,those darn Canadians got an advantage over the private, non-road grant countries that tried to build roads later, without government financing.[:o)] [/quote] You must be on drugs, 'cause there's no way to parse that level of nonsense. The Alcan was built by US troops to benefit transportation between Alaska and the lower 48, not to benefit Canada.  The Alcan to this day is more of a benefit to the US than to Canada.  Ownership is irrelevent, since it is open access, like all such roads.  And all roads are built with government financing, so that last quip is nonsensical. Oh, and Tom - this was in the 1940's, not the 1860's.
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