The Great Canadian Pacific railway was an extremely laborious and long railway. The railway starting in Montreal Canada ending all the way in the Port Moody B.C, the railway was a great innovation for the time as it was going to help expedite trade throughout the country and assist in colonizing the empty parts of western Canada. The railway was first introduced by late prime minister John A. Macdonald, with the help of "mining magnate" Alexander Tilloch. The first day of official building was on May 15 1880 it began in Bonfield, Ontario. The last spike was driven on Craigellachie, British Columbia, on November 7, 1885 just 5 years after it first began. The railway ended up being 6 years ahead of schedule. The railway was going to be an amazing opportunity for Canada and was but what they don't say is that it was built on a bed of the bodies of Chinese men. The railway was an extremely expensive project costing upwards of over 52 million dollars, knowing that they couldn't afford white men's wage demands, the government and company in charge brought over roughly 15,000 to 20,000 Chinese immigrants to work and lay the track. In this time of 5 years of the railway being built, 600 of those men died, working their lives to a government that barely paid them enough to live. On average a Chinese man's wages on the railway were 1.00 dollars a day and had to pay for their own gear and provisions whilst white men made 1.50-2.50 a day and did not have to pay for provisions. During their stay in the camps where they were forced to work under cruel and unsanitary measures, the Chinese men did the most unsafe tasks such as blowing up mountains which did end many lives and those who didn't die from that died from illness, malnutrition and the great Canadian winter cold. For all their hard work, these men did not receive a scrap of the recognition they deserve, even the very last spike seen being put in by a white man, assuming all the credit for all the backbreaking work the immigrants had faced. After the completion of the railway, the men were left unemployed, some moved back to China, some settled throughout the country taking jobs at the factory or other railway companies. But the aftermath was extreme discrimination, and no homage paid to those who worked.