Revelstoke Dam Visitor Centre is located 5 km north of the city of Revelstoke.
It is one of the most powerful dams in British Columbia and the second largest generating facility on the Columbia River on the Canadian side of the border.
This is the exact spot where Canada’s transcontinental railway was completed in 1885.
At this very spot in Craigellachie, British Columbia, a ceremonial spike was hammered into the rails by Donald Smith, symbolizing the end of a years-long, treacherous journey through some of the continent’s most rugged terrain.