OTTAWA — Persistent emails from activists pestering Parks Canada to rewrite a commemoration of Canada’s transcontinental railway through a revisionist lens spurned annoyance among agency staffers.
In a report published by Blacklock’s Reporter, Parks Canada staffers complained in emails about the revisionists, demanding changes to a commemoration of the Canadian Pacific Railway, taking exception to descriptions of the transcontinental railway’s last spike driven on Nov. 7, 1885 at Craigellachie, B.C. — about 40 km west of Revelstoke — as being “the moment when national unity was realized.”
