The last spike is driven at Craigellachie

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1. Story
2. Donald A. Smith drives the final spike of the Canadian Pacific main line at Craigellachie in Eagle Pass, British Columbia, at a deliberately unceremonious gathering. He bends the first spike and pockets it; a replacement goes in cleanly. The line completes a promise made to British Columbia as its condition for entering Confederation, and it does so several years ahead of the contractual deadline — a speed bought partly by accepting the 4.4 to 4.5 per cent Big Hill over Kicking Horse Pass rather than waiting for a tunnel.
3. Knowledge
4. Canadian Pacific transcontinental main line
5. Ruling gradient
6. The last spike is driven at Craigellachie
7. Connections
8. Canadian Pacific transcontinental main line
9. Ruling gradient
10. Ruling gradient
11. The last spike is driven at Craigellachie
12. The Spiral Tunnels open and the Big Hill is retired
13. Trans-Siberian Railway
14. Canadian Pacific transcontinental main line
15. The main-line steam locomotive
16. The last spike is driven at Craigellachie
17. The Spiral Tunnels open and the Big Hill is retired
18. The Severomuysky Tunnel opens under the BAM's worst obstacle
19. Evidence
20. Supports Donald A. Smith driving the last spike at Craigellachie, British Columbia, on 7 November 1885, bending the first spike and keeping it, completing the railway that fulfilled British Columbia's condition of entering Confederation. V55 verification basis: the substance was carried in an attributed search result naming The Canadian Encyclopedia; the page was not fetched.