Word: cpr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends, "S. J." to most), 60, for nine years vice president in charge of construction, operation and maintenance. His railroad career covers 46 years. It began just one year after Canadian Pacific spanned Canada, when he became a machinist's apprentice on Southeastern Railroad, which was later absorbed by CPR. In 1901 he was sent west from New Brunswick to be locomotive foreman for CPR at Cranbrook in southeastern British Columbia. Only two years later he was in muddy Calgary as master mechanic of the western division. In 1904 he was moved east to sprawling, plain-surrounded Winnipeg as superintendent...
...During the funeral of William Cornelius Van Home, second president of Canadian Pacific Railway, most outstanding of its builders, every wheel in the vast CPR system was stopped...