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Craigellachie, British Columbia

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Craigellachie is a locality in British Columbia, Canada, located several kilometers to the west of the Eagle Pass summit.

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.

The American equivalent of Craigellachie is Promontory, Utah.

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