Robert Dunsmuir
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Robert Dunsmuir was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman and politician.
Robert Dunsmuir
Mrs Effie Calthorpe née Dunsmuir
Island Rail Corridor
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The Island Corridor, previously the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway, is a railway operation on Vancouver Island. It is owned by the Island Corridor Foundation, a registered charity. The railway line is 22
Robert Dunsmuir
…1883 Diggle was paid $600,000 for his half share of the business, then producing a profit of $500,000 per year. Dunsmuir was one of the founders of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company which built the rail line from Esquimalt to Nanaimo, later extended to Wellington, Victoria and Courtenay. His company received a grant of land…
Summit Lake on the Port Alberni Subdivision with Mount Arrowsmith in the background
Port Alberni Station is today only used by the heritage Alberni Pacific Railway
Loon Lake, Port Alberni Subdivision
The bridge over Niagara Creek Canyon. This cantilever bridge was built in England in 1883 and first used in Canada crossing the Fraser River at Cisco, where it became known as the Cisco Bridge. It was moved to Vancouver Island for the present crossing in 1910.