Reminiscences of a Raconteur, Between the '40s and the '20sHam, George H. (George Henry)
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Reminiscences of a Raconteur, Between the '40s and the '20s
Ham, George H. (George Henry)
Canada; Ham, George H. (George Henry), 1847-1926; Journalists -- Canada -- Biography
Amongst other prominent men connected with the C. P. R. were E. H.
McHenry and W. F. Tye and John Sullivan, now of Winnipeg, where he was
elected an alderman, and amongst the real original first ones was J. M.
Egan, the general superintendent of the road of Winnipeg, who left to
accept the presidency of the Central of Georgia Railway and the Seaboard
Line, and is now farming not far from St. Louis, Mo.
* * * * *
Ed. James is another old-timer. He joined the C.P.R. in its earliest
days, and from a telegraph operator rose until he became general
superintendent, and afterwards accepted the general managership of the
Canadian Northern, from which he resigned and is now living in
Vancouver.
Col. E. W. P. Ramsay, who made a high record during the war, having been
mentioned in despatches and honoured with a C.M.G., was an apprentice in
the mechanical department in his youth and afterwards engineer of
construction of Eastern lines—the building of the Lake Ontario shore
line being one of his achievements. Charles W. Monserrat in 1889 was a
draughtsman and later a bridge engineer. He had charge of the
construction of the Quebec bridge, having left the service in 1910.
Other Old-Timers.
John Persse is a prosperous business man of Winnipeg, and W. O. Somers,
of the traffic department, W. J. Ross, bridge builder, now of Port
Arthur; of superintendents James Murray, Fred Jones, C. W. Milestone,
Tom Kilpatrick, W. A. Perry, J. A. Cameron, C. J. Ambridge and G. D.
Henderson; of old conductors Joe Fahey, Leary, Billy Fogg, Larose, Billy
Chester, now a prominent figure in labor circles, and Billy Brown, now
general superintendent in the C.N.R.; of engineers, Ash, Kennedy, J.
Brownlee, Armstrong, H. Phipps, Carey, also Bob Willoughby, Tom Carter,
Frank Nelson, Mark Baker and Dunham, whose terms of service range from
twenty-five to forty years. Doctors Good and Jones, Blanchard, Brett,
now Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta; and Andrew Mackenzie, car service
agent, is now of the Dominion Coal Company.
Some Who Have Passed Away.
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