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| Charles Esplin was born in Scotland and moved to Canada in 1846. He studied engineering at McGill University in Montréal, and then established a business erecting grist and saw mills. He moved to Winnipeg in 1878, and, not having achieved the hoped-for success there, he moved to Minneapolis in 1883. He moved to Seattle, then Victoria, then back to Winnipeg in 1897. Source: "Engineering expertise and the Canadian exploitation of the technology of the second industrial revolution", by Marvin McInnis of Queen's University. |
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