Globe. It noted that a crowd of "upwards of 500 ladies and gentlemen" gathered to celebrate the event on the left bank of the Kaministiquia River in the District of Thunder Bay, about four miles upriver from Fort William.

Macdonald would later return as prime minister in 1878 and adopt a more aggressive construction policy. Bonds were floated in London and called for tenders to complete sections of the railway in British Columbia. American contractor Andrew Onderdonk