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    Robert Dunsmuir (August 31, 1825 – April 12, 1889) was a Scottish-born Canadian businessman and politician. He was recognized as a National Historic Person...
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    and Imperial policy in England that the road should be constructed." Robert Dunsmuir, the Nanaimo coal baron and a member of the provincial legislature...
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    Dunsmuir is a city in Siskiyou County, northern California. It is on the upper Sacramento River. Its population is 1,707 as of the 2020 census, up from...
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    British Columbia from 1906 to 1909. Son of Robert Dunsmuir, he was heir to his family's coal fortune. The Dunsmuir family dominated the province's economy...
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  • Columbia Robert Dunsmuir, Canadian industrialist Dunsmuir v New Brunswick, a leading Supreme Court of Canada case on judicial review Dunsmuir House, an...
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    house was built in 1899 by Alexander Dunsmuir, son of Robert Dunsmuir, a wealthy coal magnate from Victoria, BC. Dunsmuir, who came to the San Francisco Bay...
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    mill, and further enhanced his standing by marrying a daughter of Robert Dunsmuir, a prominent industrialist on Vancouver Island. Croft was elected to...
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    luxurious abode for the esteemed coal tycoon Robert Dunsmuir and his spouse, Joan. Unfortunately, Robert's demise in April 1889, prior to the castle's...
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    construction of the Empress Hotel by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1908. Robert Dunsmuir, a leading industrialist whose interests included coal mines and a...
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  • owned by Robert Dunsmuir. Initially his company was Dunsmuir, Diggle and Co., but after he bought out his partners he carried on as R. Dunsmuir and Sons...
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    Beith Robert Craufurd (1764–1812), British major general; John Dunlop (1840–1921), inventor of the pneumatic tyre, born in Dreghorn Robert Dunsmuir (1825–1889)...
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  • first appearing in railway maps in 1918. The station is named after Robert Dunsmuir, one of the early founders of the railway. Service ended in 2011. "Victoria-Courtenay...
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    Petre. In Canada, Craigdarroch Castle, British Columbia, was built for Robert Dunsmuir, a Scottish coal baron, in 1890. In Toronto, E. J. Lennox designed...
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    Castle, were commissioned by the Scottish-born Dunsmuir family, whose coal-baron patriarch Robert Dunsmuir immigrated from Scotland to become one of Vancouver...
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  • family residence for the wealthy Scottish coal baron Robert Dunsmuir and his wife Joan. Robert died in April 1889, 17 months before construction on the...
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    The viaduct's westbound lanes—often referred to as Dunsmuir Viaduct because they connect to Dunsmuir Street—pass to the north of Rogers Arena. The westbound...
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    Alderlea for the inaugural train bearing Sir John A. Macdonald and Robert Dunsmuir. However, at Duncan's Crossing, the level crossing nearest Alderlea...
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    capital when funds were exhausted, development work ceased. In 1887, Robert Dunsmuir bought the enterprise and incorporated the Union Colliery Co. He arranged...
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    Courtenay River's first commercial enterprise, a saw mill.: 18  In 1888 Robert Dunsmuir established a mine in nearby Union, later renamed Cumberland, which...
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    large coal empire run by Robert Dunsmuir (1825–1889) and by his son and later BC premier (in office: 1900–1902), James Dunsmuir, developed on Vancouver...
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  • the Wayback Machine, Parks Canada backgrounder, July 4, 2016 Passfield, Robert W. (2007). "Philip Louis Pratley (1884–1958): bridge design engineer" (PDF)...
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  • April 9 – Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b.1786) April 12 – Robert Dunsmuir, Scottish-born Canadian industrialist and politician (b. 1825) April...
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    HBC steamboat. In 1851, final construction was complete. That year, Robert Dunsmuir was appointed foreman over a crew of immigrant coalminers. Many of...
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    Diamantina, Contessa di Roma, and Robert Lydston Newman, in October 1899. Euphemia Dunsmuir, daughter of Robert Dunsmuir, and Somerset Gough-Calthorpe, February...
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    politician, eight-time prime minister of Spain (d. 1903) August 31 – Robert Dunsmuir, Scottish industrialist, politician (d. 1889) September 4 – Dadabhai...
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    University of St Andrews Robert Colquhoun, artist Stewart Conn, poet and playwright Sir David Cuthbertson, physician Robert Dunsmuir George Forrest, botanist...
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  • kilometres (5 mi) northwest at Diver Lake in 1869, former HBC employee Robert Dunsmuir observed evidence of coal deposits, in what he would call the Wellington...
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    British Army soldier in World War I who was awarded the Victoria Cross Robert Dunsmuir – industrialist, politician and developer of coal mines and the E&N...
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    the Gorge was Burleith, the residence built in 1892 by James Dunsmuir, son of Robert Dunsmuir and set among 20 acres (8.1 ha) of lawns and gardens. While...
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    George's, Hanover Square, London on 27 February 1900 Effie Dunsmuir, daughter of Hon. Robert Dunsmuir, of Craigdarroch Castle, Victoria, British Columbia, and...
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