Eagle Pass (elevation 550m / 1804 feet ) is a mountain pass through the Gold Range of the Monashee Mountains of British Columbia Canada. It divides the Columbia River drainage basin from that of the Thompson /Fraser River system.

Eagle Pass was chosen as the route of the Canadian Pacific Railway and much later of the Trans Canada Highway.The rail line over Eagle Pass was the last section of the CPR to be completed. The last spike was driven near Eagle Pass in 1885.

Eagle Pass was discovered by Walter Moberly in 1865 in his role as assistant surveyor general  for British Columbia. His job was to explore new routes for travel and trade for the fast growing territory.It was during this time that he discovered Eagle Pass between Shuswap Lake and the Columbia river at what is now Revelstoke.

The story is that he shot at an Eagles nest and watched the birds fly up a valley.Reasoning that the birds were unlikely to fly up a blocked valley he followed them up and discovered the pass.In his recollectionshe he said he blazed a tree in the pass and inscibed the words " This is the pass for the overland railway" 20 years later his prediction proved correct.

Eagle Pass is a wonderous natural area in the heart of British Columbia’s temperate rain forest . Sockeye and Chinook Salmon make their way here from the coast via the Fraser and Thompson Rivers. Grizzly and Black Bears make their home here as well as Cougar ,Wolverine, Elk ,Moose, Caribou and of course Eagles.