Sir William Cornelius Van Horne, KCMG (February 3, 1843 – September 11, 1915) succeeded Lord Mount Stephen as President of Canadian Pacific Railway in 1888. He lived at the Van Horne Mansion in Montreal's Golden Square Mile.
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“I passed a tomb among green shades
Where seven anemones with down-dropped heads
Wept tears of dew upon the stone beneath.”
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“You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don’t bother with other things.”
—Marilyn Horne (b. 1934)