The company was capitalized for $10,000,000, with its aim to build a line from Bellingham (then known as Whatcom) to Burrard Inlet now located in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, a distance of about 56 miles.
Just days later, the inlet was again named by Captain George Vancouver, after his friend and former ship-mate Captain (later Admiral) Sir Harry Burrard.
Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, 2nd Baronet | Cook Inlet | Beaufort Inlet | Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet, of Lymington | Rankin Inlet | Pond Inlet | Vancouver-Burrard | Teal Inlet | Sir Harry Burrard | Ocracoke Inlet | Murrells Inlet, South Carolina | Case Inlet steamboats | Burrard Inlet | Burrard | Bathurst Inlet | Aireys Inlet | Wingan Inlet | Sir Harry Burrard-Neale | Shinnecock Inlet | Sebastian Inlet | Ponce Inlet, Florida | Hamilton Inlet | Geikie Inlet | Chesterfield Inlet | Burrard Street | Burrard Dry Dock | Budd Inlet | Anderson Inlet's intertidal mudflats are of world importance for Red-necked Stint | Admiralty Inlet |
Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, a bridge across the Burrard Inlet at Vancouver, British Columbia