Register entry 162 - George R. Harris
Visited the Bell Farm on April 6, 1885 - George R. Harris of Boston, a member of Blake Brothers and Co, sat on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Pacific Railway and was a member of the party that "drove the last spike" of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
(Part of a party of financiers who visited the Bell Farm on April 6, 1885 including: Adolphe Boissevain, George Harris, John Tupper, Gerrit Vis, and Daniel Boissevain.) Boissevain's Dutch investment firm had ties with Harris' company.
SOURCES:
Photo: LAC = Library and Archives Canada
http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/4928/158.html?qid=peelbib|Harris|(peelnum:004928)|score
http://www.okthepk.ca/dataCprSiding/news/2010/10111506.htm
http://www.okthepk.ca/dataCprSiding/news/2010/10110901.htm
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F6091FFA3A5F13718DDDAD0994DB405B858CF1D3
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan