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- Title
RAILROADING A RENEGADE: Great Northern Ousts John Hendry in Vancouver.
- Authors
Leonard, Frank
- Abstract
The article offers information regarding the troubled relations between James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway Company (GN) and its local subsidiary, the Vancouver, Westminster and Yukon Railway Company (VW&Y), as the American transcontinental established the last of its Pacific termini in Vancouver during the period 1901-1908. Resting largely on documents from St. Paul, Minnesota, the talk recounts the dramatic events in the attempt of Vancouver lumberman and railway promoter John Hendry, president of the VW&Y, to wrest control of the area from the City and the GN and it reveals that contradiction stamped the communications and actions of those officers who supervised and took over the Canadian subsidiary. He confided that his goal was to get enough more money from JJ Hill.
- Subjects
VANCOUVER (B.C.); BRITISH Columbia; GREAT Northern Railway Company (U.S.); VW &; Y (Company); SUBSIDIARY corporations; COLOMBIAN American business enterprises; RAILROADS; HILL, James J.; HENDRY, John
- Publication
BC Studies, 2007, Issue 155, p69
- ISSN
0005-2949
- Publication type
Article