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Born January 7, 1827 • Kirkcaldy • Scotland
Died July 22, 1915 (aged 88) • Halifax • Canada
Donald Smith; Canadian Pacific Railway
Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
Canadian financier and statesman
Allan, Sir Hugh
Sir Hugh Allan
Canadian financier
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Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
American-born Canadian railroad executive
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Thomas George Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy
Canadian railroad magnate
David Macpherson, 1881
Sir David Macpherson
Canadian politician and railroad builder
George Stephenson
George Stephenson
English engineer and inventor
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
British engineer
Panama Canal: Miraflores Locks
John Frank Stevens
American engineer
Jervis, John Bloomfield: Stourbridge Lion
John Bloomfield Jervis
American engineer
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Albert Fink
American engineer
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Marc Séguin, the Elder
French engineer
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson
British engineer
Union Gen. Herman Haupt paddling a pontoon boat of his own design used for inspecting bridges.
Herman Haupt
American engineer
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August Leopold Crelle
German mathematician and engineer
Dodge, Grenville Mellen
Grenville Mellen Dodge
American engineer
Sir John Hawkshaw.
Sir John Hawkshaw
British engineer
Gustav Lindenthal.
Gustav Lindenthal
American engineer
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George Robert Stephenson
British railroad engineer
Dalhousie, detail of an oil painting by Sir John Watson-Gordon, 1847; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie
governor-general of India
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John Manley
Canadian politician