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On November 7, 1885, the last spike was driven into the CPR track at Craigellachie near Eagle Pass in the Selkirk Mountains, signalling the completion of the Canadian dream - a rail link from the Atlantic to the Pacific. John A. Macdonald’s promise of a national railway, the condition on which BC had agreed to enter confederation, was fulfilled. Surveyors and construction crews had forged a route through seemingly impassible mountains and across ravines, muskeg and rivers to the Pacific terminus at Port Moody. Railroad navies from Eastern Europe, Ireland, and China were among the many workers who risked their lives to blast tunnels, construct the rail bed, build bridges, and lay the track.
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Railway Construction in the Fraser Canyon
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