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Craigellachie ( Pronounced , but or can be substituted for ; is another common pronunciation) is a locality in British Columbia , Canada , located several kilometres to the west of the Eagle Pass summit. Craigellachie is the site of a tourist stop on the Trans-Canada Highway between Salmon Arm and Revelstoke . It was named after the village of Craigellachie on the River Spey in Moray , Scotland , the ancestral home of Sir George Stephen , the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). Craigellachie is most famous for being the site of the "Last Spike" of the CPR, driven by Sir Donald Smith , a director of the CPR, on November 7 , 1885 . Actually, Smith drove in two last spikes. He bent the first one and had to drive in a replacement. The American equivalent of Craigellachie is Promontory, Utah . |
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