(Source: Cochrane Eagle, November 19, 2015)
COCHRANE, Alberta — A railroad runs through it and, with it, all the goods, services and progress 130 years on the rails brings. Canada’s national railroad, or Canadian Pacific Railroad, celebrated a milestone anniversary earlier this month with little fanfare. It was 130 years ago Nov. 7 that railroad financier Donald Alexander Smith hammered the ceremonial last spike into the steel strand linking Canada’s eastern shores to the West Coast. The last spike, signifying the completion of then the world’s longest (5,000 kilometres) railroad was driven into the ground at Craigellachie, B.C., where you can visit the spot commemorating the event just off the Trans-Canada Highway between Revelstoke and Sicamous.
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