Abstract
Urban development in Western Canada during the period from 1877 to 1914 was dominated by Canada's three transcontinental railways. Given their use of a technology common to railways throughout this period and the lack of settlement at the time of construction, they created urban places to serve both their operational needs and the broader economic goals of the development of the region. The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, unlike the two other transcontinentals, made an effort to combine the open grid derived from the United States with land use planning to give their towns a particular appearance. This corporate attempt at town planning en masse would ultimately prove futile in the face of the realities of the Western Canadian real estate market which was subject to rampant land speculation and volatile land values.
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