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Q: How much money did the workers building the Canadian pacific railway get paid in 1881?
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Chinese and European immigrant workers built the Canadian Pacific Railway.


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Japanese wrong and theres a thing called Google but anyways it was the CHINESE who were the workers also white men and just a bit more info the Chinese got payed a $1 a day as where the white men got payed a $1.50 - $4.50 a day and it is estimated about 600-700 workers died in the construction of the CPR


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