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Walter Moberley and the Canadian Pacific Railway Geological Survey Party in Victoria

A black and white photograph of Walter Moberly and ten other men of a CPR Survey Party. The men are wearing suits and are organized into three approximate rows in front of a building. One gentlemen is laying on his side in the front row, the second row consists of four seated men, and the third consists of six men standing.

 

Image A-01484 courtesy of the Royal BC Museum and Archives.

 

Walter Moberly (seated second from the right) was the district engineer in charge of organizing survey expedition parties to Howse Pass and Eagle Pass in the Rocky Mountains to find the best path for the cross-continental railway.