The new Grand Trunk Pacific Railway line brought politicians to the area. Clifford Sifton and T.C. Norris, of Laurier’s Liberal government, took full credit, with Sifton claiming that the Conservatives had opposed building the line. Conservative candidate T. M. Daly came claiming a Conservative government would be committed to the GTP. Charles Melville Hays (president of the Grand Trunk Railway) and F.W. Morse (vice-president of the Grand Trunk Railway) also visited.
