Sir William Cornelius Van Horne first became involved with the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1882 when he was appointed to the position of General Manager. He was involved until 1899 when he retired (as President).
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It was completed at 9:22am on November 7th, 1885.
The Canadian Pacific Railway was built in 1881 (the exact date is not sure), by the Canadian Pacific Railway company, which was lead by Sir Hugh Allan (who turned out to be a real crook), and owned by a banker from Quebec named George Stephen and an executive member of the Hudson's Bay company called Donald Smith. William Van Horne supervised the overall construction and Sanford Fleming planned out the route. The last spike of the rails was in British Columbia, and the official photograph shows a politician or some other important figure hammering it in, but really, the workers hammered in the last spike moments later after the crowd dispersed. The CPR also brought on a dirty Canadian history, forcing Chinese men to work for less than the Canadians. Stepehen Harper made it up to the Chinese by paying each remaining person from this era that was Asian or involved a $20 000 sum.
Unity. Merge of the coast is so not right. Sorry for the bad judgment from whoever tried to fool you before.
Sir John A. Macdonald sir john A MacDonald
they were able to transport stuff alot faster then let say dog sled or horse back