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It was named after the village of Craigellachie on the River Spey in Scotland, the ancestral home of Sir George Stephen , the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). 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. Actually, Smith drove in two Last Spikes. He bent the first one and had to drive in a replacement.

The American equivalent of Craigellachie is Promontory, Utah.

Sir Donald Smith drives in the last spike at Craigellachie