61. Eagle Pass

EAGLE PASS

(10 miles west of Revelstoke)

In 1865, Walter Moverly, government engineer, was searching for a railway route through these rugged Monashee Mountains.  

He shot at an eagle’s nest, and observed the birds fly into a river valley.  Following them he discovered this low pass which now carries the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.



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