{"id":24853,"date":"2022-12-31T01:03:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T05:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24853"},"modified":"2022-12-29T00:28:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T04:28:59","slug":"spiking-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/spiking-it\/","title":{"rendered":"spiking it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LAC print of dignitaries adding ‘the last spike’ in 1885 in BC<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. When I was in high school , I enjoyed playing volleyball and (briefly) announcing. \u00a0It is fitting that on the last year of the day we feature an historical event – placing ‘the last spike’ on the CPR line in BC.<\/p>\n

We are a very large country geographically, and rather small population-wise. One concession demanded by BC was to be linked by rail to the east within Canada before they agreed to join the Dominion. \u00a0 Pierre Berton<\/a> wrote about the 5 years spent building the CPR line west to BC in his book. “The Last Spike<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

The event was guided by an American steeped in railroads – Willian van Horne<\/a>.Van Horne and family moved to Montreal to guide this massive undertaking by the CPR. Van Horne lived the rest of his life in Montreal where a street was named ‘Van Horne’ in his honour.<\/p>\n

The photographs used are courtesy of the LAC<\/a> and we thank our good friend and fellow photo history enthusiast, George Dunbar for bring them to our attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. When I was in high school , I enjoyed playing volleyball and (briefly) announcing. \u00a0It is fitting that on the last year of the day we feature an historical event – placing ‘the last spike’ on the CPR line … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[4261,437,124,339,220,4061,438],"class_list":["post-24853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-british-columbia","tag-cpr","tag-montreal","tag-photographs","tag-photos","tag-quebec","tag-railway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24857,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24853\/revisions\/24857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}