What happened October 21, 1880

Octo­ber 21, 1880, Prime Min­is­ter John A. Mac­don­ald and the Cana­di­an Pacif­ic Rail­way Com­pa­ny sign a contract
For the con­struc­tion of a cross-Cana­da rail­way. The line would become com­plet­ed to the West Coast with the
Cer­e­mo­ny of the Last Spike on Novem­ber 7, 1885.