William Cornelius Van Horne, American-Canadian businessman (died 1915)

William Cornelius Van Horne

American-Canadian businessman and art collector (1843–1915)

Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, was an American businessman, industrialist and railroad magnate who spent most of his career in Canada. He is famous for overseeing the construction of the first Canadian transcontinental railway, a project that was completed in 1885, in under…