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Categories: American railroaders, American expatriates in Canada, People from Joliet, Illinois, Canadian Pacific Railway executives, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
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William Cornelius Van Horne  Sir William Van Horne  Cornelius Van Horne  sir w. van horne  Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
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Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, 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. Wikipedia
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Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, 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. Wikipedia
American-Canadian businessman and art collector Wikidata
IS A
homo
ARCHIVES AT
McGill University Archives
AWARD RECEIVED
Person of National Historic Significance
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United States
Canada
EMPLOYER
Canadian Pacific Railway
GIVEN NAME
William
Cornelius
HAS WORKS IN THE COLLECTION
National Gallery of Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario
HONORIFIC PREFIX
Sir
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
OCCUPATION
entrepreneur
art collector
painter
OWNER OF
Van Horne Mansion
PLACE OF BIRTH
Frankfort, Illinois
PLACE OF DEATH
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
POSITION HELD
president
RELIGION
Unitarianism
RESIDENCE
Canada
Milwaukee
St. Antoine
Van Horne Mansion
Shaughnessy House
SEX OR GENDER
male
Wikipedia
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William Cornelius Van Horne
Wikidata
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William Cornelius Van Horne
Wikipedia Redirections
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Cornelius Van Horne, Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, Sir William Van Horne, William Van Horne
Wikidata Alias
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sir w. van horne, Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, Sir William Van Horne, sir william van horne, W.C. van Horne, William Cornelius van Horne, William Van Horne

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