Answer to Question #302947 in History for Mila

Question

List two things that politicians from Canada East and Canada West disagreed about.

Answer 1

1. The main difference is that Western Canada was not settled from Eastern Canada, it was settled by Northern or Eastern European immigrants directly from Europe, or from the United States. Most of the settlers saw Eastern Canada only as a blur from their train windows, if they saw it at all.
2. The Eastern politicians wanted to somehow transfer the financial benefits of this resource wealth to Eastern Canada, but do it without transferring their populations to the West. This caused inevitable conflicts, because Westerners wanted to exploit their own vast resources for their own benefit, not that of Easterners.