Posts Tagged ‘Countess of Dufferin’
Crossing Canada by train gave me three reasons to hate Calgary
We called it The VIA-Rail, 50 Canadians, Ocean-to-Ocean, Book-Tour Extravaganza. By using voodoo magic, my book publisher, Harper-Collins Canada, had worked a deal with VIA-Rail to send me and my artist-photographer-wife, Sheena Fraser McGoogan, back and forth across the country by train to promote 50 Canadians Who Changed the World. All I had to do was…
Read MoreCountess of Dufferin evokes the glory days of Winnipeg
Meet the Countess of Dufferin. We did so today at the Winnipeg Railway Museum. Built in 1872, and named after the wife of the Earl of Dufferin, Canada’s third governor-general, she was the first locomotive to operate in the Canadian prairies. She arrived in Canada in 1877 and served for more than 30 years. In…
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