Mount Bury

Mount Bury (50˚26'25" 127˚54'51" S entrance to Quatsino Sd, NW side of Vancouver I). Sir George Bury (1866–1958) was born at Montreal and went to work for the CPR as a junior clerk in 1881. He was in charge of sleeping and dining cars at age 21, divisional superintendent by 24, then rose to western gen manager and, by 1912, vice-president. The Connaught and Spiral tunnels through the Selkirks and Rockies were built under his supervision. In 1917, at the request of the British government, he...

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