Craigellachie (, but or can be substituted for the ) is a locality in
British Columbia,
Canada, located several kilometres to the west of the
Eagle Pass summit between
Sicamous and
Revelstoke. Craigellachie is the site of a tourist stop on the
Trans-Canada Highway between
Salmon Arm and
Revelstoke.
It was named after the village of
Craigellachie on the
River Spey in
Moray,
Scotland, the ancestral home of Sir
George Stephen, the first president of the
Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). At a critical time in the railway's development, Stephen travelled to Britain to raise desperately needed capital funding; when he succeeded, he telegraphed his associates in Canada quoting the familiar motto of
Clan Grant: "Stand fast, Craigellachie!"

Sir Donald Smith drives in the last spike at Craigellachie
The Canadian Craigellachie is most famous for being the site of the
"Last Spike" of the CPR, driven by Sir
Donald Smith, a director of the CPR, on
November 7,
1885.