Editing Canadian Pacific Railway (section)

====Settlement of western Canada====
[[File:Land Ticket.jpg|thumb|upright|One of the CPR's land offerings, 1883]]
Under the initial contract with the Canadian government to build the railway, the CPR was granted {{convert|25|e6acres|km2|abbr=off|order=flip}}. Canadian Pacific then began an intense campaign to bring immigrants to Canada; its agents operated in many overseas locations, where immigrants were often sold a package that included passage on a CP ship, travel on a CP train and land sold by the CP railway.  Land was priced at $2.50 an acre and up but required cultivation.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Canadian Pacific Railway Co|journal=The Week: A Canadian Journal of Politics, Literature, Science and Arts|date=24 January 1884|volume=8|page=127|url=https://archive.org/stream/weekcanadianjour01toro#page/n63/mode/1up}}</ref> To transport immigrants, Canadian Pacific developed a fleet of over a thousand [[Colonist car]]s, low-budget sleeper cars designed to transport immigrant families from eastern Canadian seaports to the west.<ref>Jonathan Hanna, "Colonist Cars Helped Build the West", ''Momentum'' Fall 2008</ref>