William Van Horne and the CPR
Across
- 6. The governemt that passed the $22.5 million dollar bill
- 7. A word that wasn't in Van Horne's vocabulary
- 9. The amount of time it took Van Horne to complete the railway
- 10. He was the general manager of a small railway in the American midwest at what age
- 12. Van Horne cut corners to ____ money
- 16. The biggest problem when building the railway
- 17. Van Horne decided to become this when working on the Michigan Central
- 19. The conditions of this were terrible, so were working conditions
Down
- 1. The area of the CPR where all the money was spent
- 2. The kind of railway trestles that were used over the rough terrain
- 3. Where the CPR crossed the rockies
- 4. By ____ of 1883 the money for the CPR had dried up
- 5. Van Horne injected a high level of this into the railway company
- 8. The amount (in miles) of railway being laid per year during the peak years
- 9. Where Van Horne was born
- 11. The methood used to build the railway "by_____"
- 13. The place the money for the railway came from
- 14. The age at which Van Horne's formal education ended
- 15. There were none of these kind of facilities
- 18. Van Horne's nationality