Government Initiatives at Infrastructures
The population was now rapidly growing due the Baby Boom, and the government did not have the facilities and infrastructures to support its people, business, and trade. Construction meant more jobs, and this resulted in a decade-long building spree of hospitals, roads and major projects on a national level. Listed below are a couple of the major projects that helped the Canadian economy boom at this time.
The Trans-Canada Highway
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Like always connecting Canadians and Canadian businesses from coast to coast was a huge challenge, and Canada being the second-largest country had some of the most difficult terrain for construction. The Trans-Canada Highway Act of 1950 is the act that spurred the construction of the longest, $1 billion worth, highway,. The public agitation for this road began as early as 1910, but the road formally opened only on July 30, 1962. This is the world’s longest national highway.
The St. Lawrence Seaway
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Many Canadians wanted this massive engineering project of the St. Lawrence Seaway to be a combined effort by the U.S and Canada since the route followed Canada-U.S. border. This however was not the case, and Canada went ahead and built the necessary structures on Canadian territory. However, resentful feelings of the U.S caused them to join Canada in the next six years of construction in 1954. The St. Lawrence Seaway is a river system in conjunction with the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes. The waterway extended from Montreal to Lake Ontario, an estimated 3774 km! This waterway was recognized as one of the great civil engineering feats in history!