The last spike is driven at Craigellachie
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.
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Subjects
- Canadian Pacific transcontinental main line · route · Canada · not located
- Ruling gradient · physical criterion · not located
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The Last Spike
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.
The Canadian Encyclopedia (Historica Canada) · Verified
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-last-spike
Recorded on Canadian Pacific transcontinental main line
- The last spike is driven at Craigellachie
- The Spiral Tunnels open and the Big Hill is retired
- The Severomuysky Tunnel opens under the BAM's worst obstacle
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