Craigellachie Attractions

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. Six months later the first passenger train left Montréal to arrive after six days in Port Moody, near Vancouver, making what was then the longest scheduled railway connection in the world, and the monument here commemorates the importance of this event.
Craigellachie is a small town known by tourists mainly for it's location next to this historic site.