A New Favorite Hotel and Perhaps a New Favorite City When we made our plans for visiting this lovely city (which we had visited in 2014 for a professional conference), we chose the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, falling in with the Fairmont chain just as we had done for Toronto and Victoria. And as I say, …
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Crossing Canada by Train (4)
Day Four (Saturday): On to Vancouver, With a Festive (And Very Personal) Final Evening Oddly enough, not much to write about as The Canadian rolled through British Columbia and made its way to Vancouver. At this point, the journey was not particularly visual, so no photographs. But we all had a good time talking and …
Crossing Canada by Train (3)
Day Three (Friday): The Canadian Rockies For anyone thinking about the cross-country journey on The Canadian, a primary consideration probably has to do with the Canadian Rockies. And that goes together with – hopefully – an opportunity to bring home some images (mental or, if travelling with a talented photographer, nice photographs that will keep …
Crossing Canada by Train (2)
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 …
Crossing Canada by Train (1)
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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