Toronto Ontario - Re: Beware the Dominoes of Toppling Statues, 28 Aug 2018
 
This article refers to Sir John A. Macdonald as "the prime minister who drove the last spike on the old Canadian Pacific Railway that bound British Columbia to the rest of the country."
 
Sir John A. Macdonald had nothing to do with the last spike.
 
It was driven by CPR director Donald Smith in the presence of a handful of company officials and a group of labourers.
 
Sir John A. Macdonald was thousands of kilometres away in Ottawa, and didn't even know the railway had been completed until the general manager sent a telegram.
 
Stuart Rogers.