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	Moving in Canada British Columbia Overview
		British Columbia'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.
		British Columbia joined the Confederation of Canada in 1871 after a rail link was promised between the Pacific coast and the rest of the country.
		British Columbia'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.
	www.movingincanada.com /BritishColumbia (288 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Craigellachie, British Columbia
		Craigellachie (pronounced [kɹəˈgɛ.lə.xi], but [k] or [h] can be substituted for [x]) is a locality in British Columbia, Canada, located several kilometres to the west of the Eagle Pass summit.
		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.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Craigellachie,_British_Columbia (174 words)

	Craigellachie, British Columbia - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Craigellachie [ Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, DejaVu Sans, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Code2000, MV Boli, MS Mincho, Arial, sans-serif,kɹəˈgɛləxi] is western a place in the Canadian province British Columbia, some kilometers of the Eagle passport at the Trans Canada Highway.
		The place was designated to the village Craigellachie at the River Spey in Scotland, the homeland of the ancestors of George Stephen, the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR).
		Craigellachie became admits as the place, where the symbolic “last nail” (“read spike”) was set for the transkanadischen railway.
	cleverpedia.com /Craigellachie,_British_Columbia (135 words)

	Craigellachie, British Columbia
		Craigellachie is a town in the Okanagan[?] Valley of British Columbia, Canada.
		The town was named after the village of Craigellachie on the River Spey[?] in Scotland, the ancestral home of George Stephen, the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
		The town is most famous for being the site of the "last spike" of the CPR, driven by Donald Smith, a director of the CPR, on November 7, 1885; it is the Canadian equivalent of the American Promontory Point.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/cr/Craigellachie,_British_Columbia.html (80 words)

	Cordova Bay Station - Canadian railway news for Foamers and Railfans.
		Craigellachie British Columbia - The Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was the final spike completing the Canadian Pacific Railway between Montreal and the Pacific Ocean driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
		This is the stone cairn marking the Last Spike location that lies on the north side of the CPR mainline at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
		At the time, it fulfilled an 1871 commitment made by the Federal government to British Columbia which stipulated that a railway be built joining the Pacific province to Central Canada.
	www.cordovastation.ca /spike/spike01.htm (1125 words)

	Canadian_Pacific_Railway - Thagodz Wiki
		The railway was originally built between eastern Canada and British Columbia between 1881 and 1885 (connecting with Ottawa Valley and Georgian Bay area lines built earlier), fulfilling a promise extended to British Columbia when it entered Confederation in 1871.
		British Columbia had insisted upon a national railway as a condition for joining the Confederation of Canada.
		The construction seasons of 1884 and 1885 would be spent in the mountains of British Columbia and on the north shore of Lake Superior.
	www.thagodz.com /search/wiki/?title=Canadian_Pacific_Railway (6859 words)

	Craigellachie, British Columbia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Craigellachie, BC Craigellachie (pronounced [kɹəˈgɛ.lə.xi], but [k] or [h] can be substituted for [x]) 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.
		This British Columbia location article is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Craigellachie,_British_Columbia (179 words)

	Craigellachie, Canada
		From Sicamous the TransCanada Highway follows the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway, built in the 1880s, over Eagle Pass (discovered in 1865) through the rugged 2500-3000 m (8200-9850 ft) Monashee Mountains, where the road can be blocked at times by heavy snowfalls in winter.
		After 26 km (16 mi.), at Craigellachie, the place is reached where in 1885 the last spike was driven into place in the Canadian Pacific Railroad, completing the country's first trans-continental railway.
		Craigellachie is a small town known by tourists mainly for it's location next to this historic site.
	www.planetware.com /canada/craigellachie-cdn-bc-bccra.htm (158 words)

	Canadian Railway Hall of Fame - Craigellachie, British Columbia
		Craigellachie Station, west of the Eagle Pass summit between Salmon Arm and Revelstoke, B.C. is where the last spike was driven to join the eastern and western portions and to mark completion of construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
		Craigellachie Station was named after the village on the River Spey in Scotland, the ancestral home of Sir George Stephen and first president of the CPR.
		The "Last Spike" was driven by Sir Donald Smith, a director of the CPR, on Nov, 7, 1885 — six years ahead of schedule.
	railfame.ca /sec_ind/communities/en_2005_Craigellachie_Bc.asp (116 words)

	Sicamous, British Columbia, Canada
		Sicamous was unofficially formed in 1885, and prospered during the years following the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railways in the late 1880s, as it was a key point on the trans-continental mainline, as well as an important paddle wheeler connection to the rail lines and paddle wheelers of the Okanagan and Kootenays.
		Sicamous was incorporated in December 1989, to become the 148th municipality of British Columbia, and is also the home of Mr.
		Travel the sunny interior of British Columbia, north through the Okanagan to Sicamous, following Highway 1 into the mountains of the BC Rockies.
	www.britishcolumbia.com /regions/towns/?townID=3466 (1546 words)

	Calgary: Think of Where we've Been...Imagine Where We Are Going.
		The reason why Canada needed a railway was that British Columbia came to Canada in 1872, with the promise to build a railroad within ten years.
		At the same time in Western British Columbia, there still were construction crews building.
		The spike was driven in at Craigellachie, British Columbia, on November 7, 1889.
	projects.cbe.ab.ca /riverbend/calgary/cpr.html (384 words)

	Civilization.ca - A Chronology of Canadian Postal History - 1868-1899
		British Columbia joins Canada and arrangements are made with the Post Office of the United States whereby mail to and from British Columbia is passed in closed bags through the United States mails between Windsor, Ontario, and Victoria, British Columbia, via San Francisco.
		With the permission of the British government, however, the government of Canada directs the Postmaster General to take measures leading to the admission of Canada to the GPU, which occurs in 1878.
		Red is adopted as the standard colour for mailboxes in the British Empire.
	www.civilization.ca /cpm/chrono/chs1868e.html (1757 words)

	Example Timeline Chart
		The Oregon Boundary Treaty signed by U.S. President James Polk and Queen Victoria further determines the western boundary between British North America and the U.S. at 49 degrees north latitude from the crest of the Rockies to the middle of the Channel between Vancouver Island and the Mainland.
		It is soon expanded with the addition of Manitoba (formerly Assiniboia) and the North-West Territories (July 15, 1870), British Columbia (July 20, 1871), Prince Edward Island (July 1, 1873), Alberta and Saskatchewan (Sept 1, 1905), and ultimately Newfoundland (March 31, 1949).
		All of British North America between Ontario and B.C. becomes part of Dominion of Canada under the Manitoba Act, and the province of Manitoba, formerly Assiniboia, is formed and becomes the fifth province.
	www.federalassembly.com /mike/tl36.htm (8812 words)

	November 7 - November 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A group of 27 Hungarians and Austrians from Saskatchewan was prevented from leaving their boat in Kelowna, British Columbia, by members of the Great War Veterans Association.
		The European families had hoped to purchase farms in the Okanagan region of southern British Columbia, but when they tried to land they were told that returned veterans wouldn't allow an alien colony to be established in the region.
		A young British woman, widowed during the war and recently arrived in Calgary, was surprised that Canadians were so interested in the impending wedding of Princess Elizabeth.
	www.glenbow.org /exhibitions/online/libhtm/nov7.htm (1209 words)

	"Spike by Spike: The Building of the Canadian-Pacific Railroad" by Brenda Ross
		With this promise, British Columbia became the 6th province in 1871.
		The people of the southern interior of British Columbia had hoped for a more direct rail line to connect them with the coast, but now they found that the only way was a roundabout route by steamship and train that took many days.
		British North America Act - An Act for the Union of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick, and the government thereof.(Consolidated with amendments).
	www.kudzumonthly.com /kudzu/jul03/SpikeBySpike.html (4733 words)

	Alberta - Transcontinental Tour - Canada, by Train (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One factor motivating Macdonald was that the western regions of the United States were being settled with immigrants and after the Civil War, some prominent Americans openly discussed the annexation of their northern neighbour.
		In addition, British Columbia insisted upon the railway as a condition for joining the union.
		After many trials and tribulations, including a national scandal that kicked Macdonald temporarily out of office, the final rail was laid at Craigellachie, British Columbia in 1885.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /trains/h30-2030-e.html (526 words)

	Excerpt First Person Biography Cairine Wilson Canada's First Woman Senator, Canadian biographies, Canadian politics, ...
		Perhaps even more important, she was born into a Scots-Canadian family that figured prominently in Montreal's English-Scots establishment, an insular society that flourished in Montreal's famous Square Mile, those several blocks in central Montreal where the rich built their mansions in the last half of the nineteenth century and the first years of the twentieth.
		When the future senator was born, in 1885, the British Empire was approaching its zenith and privileged Victorians everywhere basked in opulence and smugness.
		The financier and politician, Donald Smith, in an act charged with symbolism, drove a plain iron spike into a railway tie at Craigellachie, British Columbia, thereby completing the celebrated Canadian Pacific Railway and welding East to West.
	www.valerieknowles.com /firstperson_excerpt.html (276 words)

	New Harper’s Mews » Bookshelf — The Last Spike
		But Macdonald had promised the British Columbia region, as an enticement to join the Confederation, that they would get a railroad to link them to the east; and these men pledged their ability to pull off the trick.
		The “last spike” was hammered down at Craigellachie, British Columbia in 1885; and though regular service between east and west Canada did not begin for some time after, the ability to travel directly between British Columbia and the eastern cities was there.
		An all-too-brief excerpt of its first performance — 30 seconds or so, on a CBC television program for the Canadian Centennial in 1967 — can be seen at the CBC Archives.
	harperbruce.net /?p=195 (1201 words)

	Sandford Fleming Summary
		Fleming was present when Donald Smith drove in the "last spike" in Craigellachie, British Columbia in 1885, now as a board member of the Canadian Pacific company.
		In 1880 he retired from the world of surveying, and took the position of Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston Ontario, a position he held for his last 35 years, where his former Minister George Monro Grant was Principal from 1877 until Grant's death in 1902.
		Not content to leave well enough alone, he tirelessly advocated the construction of a submarine telegraph cable connecting all of the British Empire, the All Red Line, which was completed in 1902.
	www.bookrags.com /Sandford_Fleming (1578 words)

	craigellachie - Ask.com Web Search
		Craigellachie Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge located in Speyside, Moray, Scotland near the village of Aberlour.
		A popular local Inn offering bed and breakfast accommodation with evening meals, this Craigellachie hotel is on the banks of the River Spey.
		Donald Alexander Smith at Craigellachie, B.C. on November 7th, 1885, that single spike instantly became an important historic symbol.
	search.ask.com /web?q=craigellachie (238 words)

	Old Time Trains
		This was part of a government of Canada project to build a transcontinental railway to secure the entry of British Columbia into Canada.
		A 340 mile secondary main line between Lethbridge, Alberta and Nelson, British Columbia through the famed Crow's Nest Pass, part of the 961 mile run to Vancouver, B.C. of the Kootenay Express and Kettle Valley Express.
		An historic old operation in British Columbia whose past included mine disasters, fires and the infamous tragedy of the Frank slide.
	www.trainweb.org /oldtimetrains/links.html (660 words)

	Untitled Document
		It is recorded the new president showed a conciliatory attitude toward the South: the last federal troops were withdrawn and there was no further effort to protect the rights of fls.
		1885-At 9:30 AM the last spike was driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia, completing the Canadian Pacific Railway's 2,980-mile transcontinental railroad track between Montreal, Quebec, in the east and Port Moody, British Columbia, in the west.
		The Germans refused to curtail their submarine warfare after 120 Americans were killed aboard the British liner, Lusitania.
	leasingnews.org /American_History/nov_07.htm (2213 words)

	All Aboard! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This site features the archival photographs documenting one of the most remarkable engineering feats in Canada's history: the building of a railway from Port Moody to Craigellachie in British Columbia, Canada, a distance of about 342 miles (547 km).
		The Kamloops Art Gallery gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the British Columbia Provincial Archives in Victoria.
		Most of the photographs presented here come from their collections, with additional material from the City of Vancouver Archives.
	www.kag.bc.ca /Exhibitions/AllAboard/allaboard.html (226 words)

	Donald Smith - winnipedia.ca
		He raised Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), a private unit of Canadian soldiers, during the Boer War, and became one of the leading supporters of British imperialism within London.
		He was involved in the creation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, of which he became the chairman in 1909.
		Smith was a leading philanthropist in his later years, donating large sums of money to various organizations in both Britain and Canada.
	winnipedia.ca /wiki/Donald_Smith (1408 words)

	British Columbia Railfan Sites
		This information is courtesy of Roger Keim, who loves the railfan opportunities in British Columbia.
		On the border between Alberta and British Columbia, the pass is about 5 miles east of Field, and perhaps 4 miles west of Lake Louise.
		This is the place where trains coming west from Kicking Horse and Rogers passes pause and try to get their breath, figuratively speaking.
	www.frograil.com /railroad/bc.htm (1103 words)

	1942 Quiz Book on Railroads and Railroading (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Whitney's "Pacific Railroad" was to extend from a point on Lake Michigan, as directly as possible, to the mouth of the Columbia River on the Pacific Ocean.
		The cars were decorated with American and British flags, symbolizing the union which is destined to take place between the United States and Canada.
		The last spike in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway to Vancouver, first railroad to span the Canadian Rockies, was driven at Craigellachie, British Columbia, on November 7, 1885.
	www.railwaystation.com /1942/ - !http://www.railwaystation.com/1942/15.html (7607 words)

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