Nevertheless, the Montreal capitalist Hugh Allan, with his syndicate Canada Pacific Railway Company, sought the potentially lucrative charter for the project. The problem lay in that Allan and Macdonald highly and secretly were in cahoots with American financiers such as George W. McMullen and Jay Cooke, men who were deeply interested in the rival American undertaking, the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Nevertheless the Montreal capitalist Hugh Allan with his syndicate Canada Pacific Railway Company sought the potentially lucrative charter for the project The problem lay in that Allan and Macdonald highly and secretly were in cahoots with American financiers such as George W McMullen and Jay Cooke men who were deeply interested in the rival American undertaking the Northern Pacific Railroad