CH-0106 · RESEARCH DRAFT
Canadian Pacific Railway last spike
The last spike was driven on November 7, 1885, marking completion of the transcontinental railway connection.
Not publication-ready. Distinguish construction completion from regular passenger service; a railway line does not date settlement or Indigenous title.
- Historical place
- Pacific
- Present-day context
- Unknown — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- Railway workers, Chinese workers, Indigenous nations
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
Source evidence
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Completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Parks Canada · · Review: page opened
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-12. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
Primary institutional reference opened; draft entry and event-specific geography require editorial review.