Image:LastSpike Craigellachie BC Canada.jpg

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English: Last Spike of the CPR - Craigellachie, British Columbia, Canada.

Donald Alexander Smith driving the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Also in the photo are (generally left to right) Albert Bowman Rogers (Surveyor), Michael Haney (Contractor), William Cornelius Van Horne (CPR Manager), Sir Sandford Fleming, Edward Mallandaine (teenager), Henry Cambie (engineer), John Egan (General Superintendent), Sam Steele (NorthWest Mounted Police), James Ross (engineer). The man at the rear of the photo, just right of centre, with a white cowboy hat and moustache, is reputed to be Tom Wilson, guide & outfitter & the first white man to see Lake Louise.
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This image is available from Library and Archives Canada under the reproduction reference number C-003693 and under the MIKAN ID number 3194527

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Date

November 7, 1885
Author

Ross, Alexander, Best & Co., Winnipeg
Permission
( Reusing this image)
Public domain This Canadian work is in the public domain in Canada because its copyright has expired due to one of the following:
1. it was subject to Crown copyright and was first published more than 50 years ago, or

it was not subject to Crown copyright, and

2. it is a photograph that was created prior to January 1, 1949, or
3. the creator died more than 50 years ago.
Please see en:WP:PD#Canadian images: Yousuf Karsh
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