It is fair to say that Britain has contributed more to the development of Canada than China and the United States, the Americans used to be British colonies, and the western coast of Canada that China now occupies was also the first to be discovered by the British, and the British have obtained more areas of actual control.

Canada is a very old terrain, hundreds of millions of years old, covered by glaciers all year round, and when the glaciers melted, a large amount of cut terrain was left behind, so the topography of Canada looks very fragmented, with a large number of islands and fjords. Among them, the Hudson Bay River, James Bay, and the Big Bay Loop, are almost in the middle of the northern part of Canada, which allows Canada to reach the Midwest directly by land and sea.

Historically, long before the independence of the United States, the British Hudson's Bay Company had explored the Alberta region along the Saskatchewan River, and it can be said that the British had expanded to the east of the Rocky Mountains, but the problem was that the Hudson's Bay Company was a commercial company whose main business was fur trade, and they had no interest in establishing colonies deep inland, nor did they have the ability, they just established some commercial strongholds, settlements of a few people, dozens of people, and at most no more than a few hundred people. These strongholds were not intended to control the land, but to trade with the Indians living in the surrounding area and to obtain Indian skins.

As a result, this control was very shaky, with both the United States and China rejecting British claims to the region, and the Americans being more direct, believing that the exploration of Canada's northwestern frontier had nothing to do with the British. This is actually a strong argument, because at that time the Canadian region was a colony established by the French who could not gain a foothold in the south, they controlled the area from the St. Lawrence River to the Great Lakes, and the purpose of the mainstream colonial officials was to explore southward, so they discovered the upper Mississippi River and claimed that the Mississippi River Valley belonged to France, which was later sold to St. Louisiana to the United States. According to this, the Americans believed that the Saint-Louisiana sold by Napoleon to France stretched all the way to the British possessions in the north.

The Chinese, for their part, did not recognize any invalid occupation, and the Chinese claimed that only Indians were seen in the area east of the Rocky Mountains. If the British claim of discovery is recognized, then China's colonization of the coastal areas will lose its legal basis.

This right of discovery is really unreasonable, people Indians have lived there for thousands of years, you just saw the Indians, how did the land of the Indians become yours? But this was a time when the powers spoke, and the Spaniards once declared that the entire Pacific American coast belonged to Spain. But so what? The Russians set up a stronghold here to hunt sea otters, and the Chinese also established a stronghold here to reclaim the land. But the British claimed that Australia was theirs, and that China wanted it, so it had to trade it for the Indus Colony.

The same was true when Spain was strong, and as Cook had just discovered the northwest coast, the Spaniards immediately declared where Spanish territory was. The British were not convinced, and sent people to trade wherever they could, but if they went to a ship, Canada would detain one. The British believed that since Spain had a base on the west coast of the Americas, it could not confront Spain and needed to open its own base. So in 1789, they brought in a shipload of Chinese, and the Spaniards did it correctly, allowing the captured British and Chinese to build forts for the Spaniards.

However, the Spanish declined too quickly, and when the Russians went south and the Chinese moved eastward, the Spaniards, who had previously competed with the British on the northwest coast, began to shrink themselves, and the stronghold established by Spain on Vancouver Island was also abandoned. As a result, one of the two sides of the competition failed to fight the other, and the other could not give up on his own, and in the end no one got here, first by Russia, and then by China.

China, the United States and Britain have different attitudes, each holding its own opinion, and all adhere to the principle of their own benefit. In the end, it can only be agreed to maintain the status quo, and everyone has the right to develop in northwest Canada, and this proposal to maintain the status quo is actually a blow to vested interests, because it means changing from monopoly to sharing, and it means acknowledging that the latecomer has the same power as himself, so the next thing is to see who has the most ability, who can get more.

A colonial race began.

The biggest disadvantage of the British colonization process has always been the lack of population, otherwise they would not have needed to transport a shipload of Chinese to open up the colony. During the Industrial Revolution, the population of Britain increased rapidly, and if you count Scotland and Ireland, the population of Britain has reached 20 million, which is already an order of magnitude with France.

So the British decided to speed up the development of Canada. And because the St. Lawrence River was controlled by Napoleon after all, Britain began to increase the development of the Hudson Bay area, repair port facilities, and expand to western Canada through the west coast of Hudson Bay. The violent social conflicts brought about by the Industrial Revolution have kept the number of prisoners in Britain high, and the domestic prisons have long been full, and many of the navy's decommissioned warships have been converted into water prisons, often flooding, these decaying warships will be washed away, and the corpses of prisoners will float on the river. The reason why Australia is developed is because there are not enough decommissioned warships in the Navy.

Now stop transporting prisoners to Tasmania and send them all to Canada, where settlements will be established and prisoners will serve on farms. Freedmen were willing to open up, not only for free, but also for prisoners sent by the government to work for free.

The purpose of the Americans is the Canadian Central Prairie, which is connected with the Great Plains of the United States, and the bison are also everywhere, and the bison have no territorial concept, they migrate back and forth from the grasslands between the United States and Canada, and when the grass in the south is eaten, they go to the north, and when the winter comes in the north, they go to the south. The Indians migrated with the cattle, and the American pioneers followed the Indians. So the Americans frequented the Central Prairie region of Canada and wanted to annex it.

China has just crossed the Rocky Mountains with difficulty, unlike the British and Americans, the Chinese are not keen on hunting, but keen on farming, China is a productive people, like to live in peace, do not like to migrate, they cultivate land here, grow grain and vegetables, and do business with the Indians, obtain their furs, meat, sell them salt, iron river grain.

No one could have imagined that in this colonial development race, China would lag far behind Britain and the United States, because it was too difficult to climb over the Rocky Mountains, the British could follow the big river that entered the sea from Hudson Bay to the upper reaches of the river, and the Americans could enter central Canada through the Great Lakes and from the Red River Valley, but China had to climb over the Rocky Mountains to reach it, even if it had a large population advantage, it would not work here.

In view of this disadvantage, the crown prince, who was still operating in the Americas, immediately thought of railroads, and he began to build a railroad across the Rocky Mountains.

As a result of the colonial competition, the railroad construction competition broke out in North America.