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Pacific Scandal Hist. 
a scandal that engulfed the administration of Sir John A. Macdonald during 1872-3, associated with the charter granted the Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
- 1946 It was this reorganized company which came to grief in the "Pacific Scandal" of 1873, the episode that also destroyed Macdonald's government. L. S. Huntingdon, a Liberal M.P. from Quebec, in the spring following the election of 1872, made most serious charges of corruption against Macdonald and of bribery against Sir Hugh Allan, who was virtually alleged to have bought the new charter from the Conservative government in return for campaign funds.
- 1966 In 1872-73 his [Macdonald's] administration was defeated as a result of the "Pacific Scandal."
- 1946 It was this reorganized company which came to grief in the "Pacific Scandal" of 1873, the episode that also destroyed Macdonald's government. L. S. Huntingdon, a Liberal M.P. from Quebec, in the spring following the election of 1872, made most serious charges of corruption against Macdonald and of bribery against Sir Hugh Allan, who was virtually alleged to have bought the new charter from the Conservative government in return for campaign funds.