Summary
The rail line was completed in the Prince Albert region, allowing greater transportation of goods and people into the mid-central and more northerly regions. This permitted resource-based industries, particularly lumber, to quickly expand in the region. This expansion necessitated the negotiation of adhesions to Treaty 6 in the region as it relates to resource management.
Implications
With the completion of the rail line, development in the North would begin. Increased settler colonial presence in the North would lead to the development of lumber, dams, mineral and natural resource such as uranium (and more), an interruption of animal pathways and lifestyles which would effect the food supply for Indigenous peoples in the North, and federally/provincially fronted relocations to continue further development in the North which would remove Indigenous peoples from their territory and hunting grounds, and fraction communities causing undue harm.
Date
1890-00-00