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Robert Dunsmuir

Rear Admiral Arthur Farquhar, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet invested a further $12,000.

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At the time of his birth, his family was engaged in the coal business in his native Ayrshire.

Wellington, British Columbia railway station

It was the Wellington Colliery Railway and mines which provided Robert Dunsmuir with the wealth, experience and infrastructure he needed to convince the government, under generous terms, to allow him to build an Island Railway.

Somerset Gough-Calthorpe

Robert Dunsmuir, M.E.C., of "Craigdarroch Castle," Victoria, British Columbia, and his wife, Joanna, daughter of Alexander White, Esquire, of Kilmarnock, Scotland.

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