. Canadian engineer. ouched for very many years. The Dominion Government in 1880 let the contractfor the construction of that portion of the railway lyingbetween Emory Bar, about four miles below Yale, throughthe canyon of the Fraser, ta Savona at the lower end ofKamloops Lake, a distance of about 123 miles. Workbegan in May of that year. A contract was let subse-quently to the same contractor to build from Emory Barwest to Port Moody, the statutory terminus, a distance ofabout 105 miles. The track between Port Moody andSavona was laid first With 56-57-lb. steel rails in two porti
. Canadian engineer. ouched for very many years. The Dominion Government in 1880 let the contractfor the construction of that portion of the railway lyingbetween Emory Bar, about four miles below Yale, throughthe canyon of the Fraser, ta Savona at the lower end ofKamloops Lake, a distance of about 123 miles. Workbegan in May of that year. A contract was let subse-quently to the same contractor to build from Emory Barwest to Port Moody, the statutory terminus, a distance ofabout 105 miles. The track between Port Moody andSavona was laid first With 56-57-lb. steel rails in two portions were handed over upon completion tothe company. The railway company entered upon construction inBritish Columbia probably in the fall of 1883, workingeast from Savona and west from the summit near last spike closing the connection between east andwest was driven near Craigellachie, in Eagle Pass, 351miles west of Vancouver, by Mr. Donald Smith (after-wards Lord .Stialhioiia), on the 7th \o\eniber, Trout Creek Bridge, near Summerland, West of OkanaganLake. Centre Span, 250 ft.; Maximum Height, 236 ft. The railway company extended the line west fromPort Moody along the south shore of Burrard Inlet toCoal Harbor, the first through train arriving in Vancouveron the 23rd May, 1887. From the year 1886 the Canadian Pacific RailwayCompany has steadily pushed into the territory tributaryto, and south of, the main line bv constructing branches 2o8 THE CANADIAN ENGINEEK Volume 30. or by loasint; ami absoibiny ihe prox iiicial charters ofotlicr railways, wliereby fertile valli-ys and mineral re-sources hint; between the main line and the internationalboundary line have been developed. The company be-tween Xancouver and Ruby Creek has 92 miles of doubletrack. The transcontinental line of the railway companyenters the province by way of the Kicking Horse Pass atthe summit of the Rocky Mountains, follows down theKicking Morse River to Golden on the Columbia River,thence f
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