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Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, KCMG (February 3, 1843 – September 11, 1915) is most famous for overseeing the construction of the first Canadian transcontinental railway, a project that was completed in 1885, in under half the projected time. He succeeded Lord Mount Stephen as president of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1888.
William Cornelius Van Horne (3 de febrero de 1843, Frankfort, Illinois, Estados Unidos – 11 de septiembre de 1915 1 , Montreal, Canadá ), que fue caballero comendador de la Orden de San Miguel y San Jorge, era un ejecutivo ferrovial norteamericano.
Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, telegrapher, railroad executive, artist (born 3 February 1843 in Chelsea, Illinois; died 11 September 1915 in Montreal, Quebec.) In January 1882, Van Horne was appointed general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), responsible for completing the transcontinental line.
Biography – VAN HORNE, Sir WILLIAM CORNELIUS – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Source: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. VAN HORNE, Sir WILLIAM CORNELIUS, railway builder and official, capitalist, and artist; b. 3 Feb. 1843 near Chelsea (Frankfort), Ill., eldest child of Cornelius Covenhoven Van Horne, a lawyer and ...
William Cornelius Van Horne, que fue caballero comendador de la Orden de San Miguel y San Jorge, era un ejecutivo ferrovial norteamericano. Fue presidente del Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. entre 1889 y 1899.
11 de may. de 2018 · Sir William Cornelius Van Horne (1843-1915) was an American-born Canadian railroad entrepreneur who supervised the building of the trans-Canadian railroad. William Van Horne was born in Will County, Ill., the eldest child of Cornelius Covenhoven Van Horne, a struggling farmer-lawyer, and his second wife, Mary Minier Richards Van Horne.
12 de abr. de 2024 · Sir William Cornelius Van Horne (born February 3, 1843, near Joliet, Illinois, U.S.—died September 11, 1915, Montreal, Canada) was an American-born Canadian railway official who directed the construction of Canada’s first transcontinental railroad. Van Horne worked as a telegraph operator on the Illinois Central Railroad.
