The spot marking the location where Sir John A. Mcdonald drove the Last Spike into the Esquimalt & Nanaimo Railway on 13 Aug 1886 is memorialized by this stone marker resting beside the E&N mainline. Today the site is virtually inaccessible and hidden in the thick forest near Shawnigan Lake. The plaque on the cairn reads "AUGUST 13TH 1886 LAST SPIKE ON E.&N. RAILWAY DRIVEN HERE BY SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD", while another plaque at the base reads "AUGUST 13, 1986 THIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES THE CENTENNIAL OF THE DRIVING OF THE LAST SPIKE ON THE ESQUIMALT AND NANAIMO RAILWAY" and also in French.