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Crossing Canada by Train (2)

October 18, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Day Two (Thursday): West and North On the trip out of Toronto and into the city suburbs (It’s a big city, with a population of nearly three million), there wasn’t a lot to see. Ontario has varied topography and we realized that looking out the window or even ascending to the observation car didn’t initially …

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Filed Under: Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Canada, Canada (farmland), Railway travel, Toronto, Travellers, VIA Rail (The Canadian)

Crossing Canada by Train (1)

October 17, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Day One: Leaving Toronto and Starting the Trip Last Monday evening, our Amtrak/VIA Rail Maple Leaf from New York to Toronto fell behind schedule by about fifty minutes. But with the engineer really moving us along, we made it into Toronto’s Union Station only five minutes late. We had worried about how we would entertain …

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Filed Under: Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Amtrak (Maple Leaf), Canada, Railway travel, Toronto, VIA Rail (The Canadian), Winnipeg

Aboard Amtrak’s Maple Leaf to Toronto

October 10, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

A Digital Post Card from Guy and Andrew Andrew has retired, as of last Friday. So we’re happy to report that the first thing we’re doing is taking a vacation. Amtrak and Canada’s VIA Rail offer the Maple Leaf service to Toronto, and we’re taking advantage of it. We’re traveling along the Hudson River Valley and the …

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Filed Under: Art & Architecture, Current Events, Journal, Personal History, Travel Tagged With: Moynihan (Daniel Patrick), Moynihan Hall Penn Station NYC, Niagara Halls, VIA Rail's The Canadian

The State Funeral

September 20, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) Yesterday was a special day in the lives of millions of people throughout the world, and I’m grateful to have been among the lucky ones on “our side of the pond” who were able to get up at 4AM to witness this event. As it happened, my favorite image of all …

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Filed Under: Current Events, History, Journal, Personal History Tagged With: Diana (Princess of Wales), Elizabeth II (1926-2022), Prince Andrew (Duke of York), Prince Philip (Duke of Edinburgh), Sarah (Duchess of York), Westminster Abbey

Guy’s Journal: Frances Hesselbein on Leadership

September 12, 2022 By Guy St. Clair

Those of us practicing knowledge services have long understood the role of leadership in the success of our efforts. Whether it’s KM, knowledge strategy development and implementation, or any of the other management methodologies relating to successful knowledge sharing, we learned long ago that it’s leadership that makes knowledge services happen. If we want to …

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Filed Under: Journal, Personal History Tagged With: Hesselbein (Frances), Knowledge Services, Knowledge Sharing, leadership, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh (GSPIA)

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