Driving the Last Spike.
There are at least three photographs depicting the official ceremonial driving of the Last Spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway. In this particular one Donald Alexander Smith, the most senior director of the company then present, and later to become Lord Strathcona, taps in the Last Spike on the Canadian Pacific Railway at Craigellachie, British Columbia, at Eagle Pass in the Gold Range. Also in the photo are (left to right) William Cornelius Van Horne (CPR General Manager), Sir Sandford Fleming, and Edward Mallandaine (teenager). Major A.B. (Hell's-Bells) Rogers was also present but cannot be seen in this particular photograph - 7 Nov 1885 Alexander J. Ross - National Library and Archives of Canada na-1494-5.