Craigellachie (IPA: /kɹəˈgɛləxi/, but /k/ or /h/ can be substituted for /x/; /ˌkɹeɪgəˈlæki/ 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 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.
BritishColumbia's 947,800 square kilometres are bordered by the Pacific Ocean, the province of BritishColumbia, the Yukon Territory and several U.S. states, including Alaska.
BritishColumbia joined the Confederation of Canada in 1871 after a rail link was promised between the Pacific coast and the rest of the country.
BritishColumbia's population is over three million people with most living in the Vancouver area (also called "the Lower Mainland"), extending eastward along the Fraser Valley, and in Victoria, the provincial capital.
Craigellachie (pronounced [kɹəˈgɛ.lə.xi], but [k] or [h] can be substituted for [x]) is a locality in BritishColumbia, Canada, located several kilometres to the west of the Eagle Pass summit.
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.
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