 It was established as a divisional point between the Grant Subdivision, leading west to the next divisional point of Armstrong, and the Hearst Subdivision, District 2, leading east to the next divisional point of Hearst.The National Transcontinental Railway was in length, from Moncton, New Brunswick, to Winnipeg, Manitoba.The last spike of the NTR was driven at Grant on November 17, 1913, west of Moncton.This information is suspect.