File:LastSpike Craigellachie BC Canada.jpg
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Last Spike of the CPR - Craigellachie, British Columbia, Canada.
Donald Alexander Smith driving the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Also in the photo are (generally left to right) Albert Bowman Rogers (Surveyor), Michael Haney (Contractor), William Cornelius Van Horne (CPR Manager), Sir Sandford Fleming, Edward Mallandaine (teenager), Henry Cambie (engineer), John Egan (General Superintendent), Sam Steele (NorthWest Mounted Police), James Ross (engineer). The man at the rear of the photo, just right of centre, with a white cowboy hat and moustache, is reputed to be Tom Wilson, guide & outfitter & the first white man to see Lake Louise.
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- 1885 in rail transport
- British Columbia
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Craigellachie, British Columbia
- Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
- Economic impact of immigration to Canada
- George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen
- Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway)
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- Post-Confederation Canada (1867–1914)
- Scottish Canadians
- Transcontinental railroad
- Infogalactic:Featured picture candidates/Last Spike
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