It was characteristic of Lord Shaughnessy to insist, despite Mr. Beatty’s protest, on the young President taking the large and ornate office room which Presidents had always occupied. Lord Shaughnessy kept busy at his office in the Board room every day in Montreal, till a sudden weakness of the heart carried him away after a few hours illness, on December 10th, 1923. Few incidents in the thrilling history of this pioneer transcontinental Canadian railway are so wonderfully touching and, in a true sense, dramatic, as the incident connected with Lord Shaughnessy’s death. Mr. Beatty was in to see him shortly before the end came, and to Mr. Beatty Lord Shaughnessy said: “Take good care of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is a great Canadian property and a great Canadian enterprise.” There is nobility and solemnity in the incident. It was a long way from the entrance of young Shaughnessy to the Milwaukee Railway, at the age of fifteen, to that scene in the sick-room in his Montreal mansion. But he had been put in charge of a great trust in the Canadian Pacific, and to that trust he was “true till death.” The passing of Lord Shaughnessy was deeply mourned by the employees of the road, who were proud of their great “Chief.” And that mourning was practically world-wide. Perhaps no better summing up of his career was written than in the London _Times_ editorial, where, after speaking of his coming from abroad, the writer goes on to say: “Here lies half the romance of Lord Shaughnessy’s career. Born in Milwaukee, a citizen of the United States, he lived to become not only a citizen of the Dominion of Canada across the border, but most essentially, a citizen of the British Empire. Under his administration the double track branched and extended so as to carry new settlers every year into the farm-lands of Ontario, through the gateways of the West, into the wheatfields of the prairies and beyond the Rockies into the valleys of British Columbia. In building the greatness of the country he served, he helped to build the greatness of his adopted country and of the Empire as well. Himself an immigrant, he realized to the full the vital importance to Canada of a vigorous system of immigration, and his characteristically outspoken comment on the possibilities that might be achieved under the Empire Settlement Act were in marked distinction to the hesitation of some of the political leaders of the Dominion. “Of Lord Shaughnessy it may be said that he was a living instance of the manner in which the Britons overseas assimilate the many elements of which they are composed. He came to Canada from a foreign country as a servant; he remained to be honoured by the king to whom he gave such loyal allegiance, and to be recognized universally among his fellow-countryman as the first citizen of the Dominion.”