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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Hill, Arthur Edmund
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Description area
Dates of existence
[-1921]
History
Arthur Edmund Hill came to B.C. in 1880 with his brother Albert J. Hill to work for the CPR. They were associated with surveys and construction in the Interior and on Vancouver Island, with the Coquitlam Water Works Company, and with New Westminster projects. In 1890 Arthur Hill was appointed superintendent of waterworks for New Westminster. In turn, he was associated with the Vancouver, Victoria and Eastern Railway, the Nicola, Kamloops and Similkameen Railway, the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, and the British Columbia Electric Railway. He died in 1921.