BC Kootenay Rockies Photos, Including Revelstoke, Nelson, Crowsnest Pass, British Columbia Stock Photos - Refer to BC Regional Maps at start of Album - PhotosCanada.com Gallery

BC Kootenay Rockies Photos, Including Revelstoke, Nelson, Crowsnest Pass, British Columbia Stock Photos - Refer to BC Regional Maps at start of Album

Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada CM11-04

Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada CM11-04

Description : The city was named by the Canadian Pacific Railway in appreciation of Lord Revelstoke, the head of Baring & Glyn, a UK banking firm that saved the Canadian Pacific Railway from bankruptcy in the summer of 1885 by buying the company,s bonds just as the railway was nearing completion.

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