Countess 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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