3-085-978 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

On the Way to Klondike, 1898. 'General Bracket (Chief of Construction) and Colonel Domville (Inspector) examining Rock Cutting Railway, approaching the Summit of the White Pass; 2. Temporary Bridge Work, White Pass Railway: Colonel Domville suggesting Improvements; 3. Wharves at Skagway; 4. General Bracket and Colonel Domville at the Men's House Six Miles from the Start of White Pass Railway; 5. Approaching Skagway. From Photographs by Colonel Domville.' Gold rush in North America. James Domville (1842-1921) was a Canadian businessman, militia officer and politician. In 1897, with the support of a consortium in England, he had commissioned a firm in North Vancouver to build two steamers and he planned a rail line, later named the Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific, to service the newly discovered Klondike goldfields. These projects were ill-starred. The railway was surveyed but never laid. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.