This show set in the Canadian west in 1885, subtitled "A musical play on the completion of a transcontinental railroad", was written by Ottawa's Graham McInnes and Norman Gilchrist. The title comes from the Canadian Immigration Department slogan "Come to the Last Best West!"
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| John (Jack) Tevlin | Sgt. Robert McKechnie of the North West Mounted Police / Donald Smith, a Director of the CPR | |
| Barry O'Brien | Cpl. William Lane of the North West Mounted Police / Rusty, a construction worker on the CPR | |
| Ronald (Ron) McQueen | Tpr. Omer Paquette of the North West Mounted Police / Shiloh, a construction worker on the CPR | |
| Donald Graham | Tpr. James Mitchell of the North West Mounted Police / Phil, a construction worker on the CPR | |
| Herbert (H.D) Fripp | Joe Martin, a dirt farmer of Assiniboia | |
| James (Jim) Mitchell | Angus McClusky, Hudson Bay factor at Fort Qu'Appelle / Sir John A. MacDonald, PM of Canada | |
| Betty Ullrich | Amity McClusky, Angus's wife | |
| Charles Kerr | Chief Crick-in-the-Neck of the Blackfeet | |
| Therese May | Muddy Water, Chief's wife | |
| Malcolm Cunningham | Rod Evans, a surveyor on the CPR | |
| Colleen Nolan | Madeleine Brisebois, a Metis girl | |
| Basil Fitzgibbon | Capt. Horatio Bloodgood, C.B., of the Montreal Garrison Artillery | |
| Mary Allen | Maisie Georghan, a charwoman at Public Works | |
| Jack Ammon | Stephen Wishart, secretary to Sir John A. MacDonald | |
| W.A. (Bill) Atkinson | William van Horne, Vice-President of the CPR | |
| Dave Davies | Jake Ferrier, construction camp foreman / Railroad worker | |
| Don Symington | Abe, a construction work on the CPR / Railroad worker | |
| Roy Walker | Herb, a construction work on the CPR / Railroad worker | |
| Marmo Shakespeare | Settler's wife | |
| Cathy Ellis | Settler's wife | |
| Dorothea O'Brien | Settler's wife | |
| Audrey Jordon | Settler's wife | |
| Daphne O'Neill | Settler's wife | |
