Cambie, Henry John

CAMBIE, Henry John, railway engineer (b 25 Oct 1836, Tipperary, Ireland; d 23 Apr 1928, Vancouver). He moved to Canada in 1852 and settled in Nova Scotia, where he studied engineering and became a railway builder. In 1874 he came to BC and was put in charge of surveying a route to the Pacific for the proposed CPR. He backed the Fraser Canyon–Burrard Inlet route and later was chief engineer during construction of the canyon section. Upon completion of the railway in 1885 he became chief...

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