Albumen photograph, 7.5 x 9 in., on 8 x 10 in. mount with the imprint of Ross, Best & Co., Winnipeg, with partly faded description in the negative dating the image at Craigellachie, British Columbia, on Nov. 7, 1885, at 9:30 AM, and identifying several of the men. The man holding the hammer is Donald Alexander Smith (1820-1914), co-founder of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the men beside him include CPR General Superintendent John Egan, manager William Cornelius Van Horne, surveyor Albert Bowman Rogers, engineers Sandford Fleming, Henry Cambie, and James Ross contractor Michael Haney, and Sam Steele of the North-West Mounted Police.
Albumen photograph, 7.5 x 9 in., on 8 x 10 in. mount with the imprint of Ross, Best & Co., Winnipeg, with partly faded description in the negative dating the image at Craigellachie, British Columbia, on Nov. 7, 1885, at 9:30 AM, and identifying several of the men. The man holding the hammer is Donald Alexander Smith (1820-1914), co-founder of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and the men beside him include CPR General Superintendent John Egan, manager William Cornelius Van Horne, surveyor Albert Bowman Rogers, engineers Sandford Fleming, Henry Cambie, and James Ross contractor Michael Haney, and Sam Steele of the North-West Mounted Police.
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