Riding "The Canadian" across Canada

Travel across Canada by rail on The Canadian The Canadian, operated between Toronto and Vancouver by VIA Rail Canada, is a government-owned corporation that is akin to the US’s Amtrak. Although Canada has invested even less in passenger train development than the...

Nova Scotia — the magnificence of history and nature

At a wilderness area of rolling hills and waterways in Nova Scotia, Canada, the story of the people who lived there 4,000 years ago is told in periodic drumming demonstrations, birch bark canoe building and other activities. The scene is very different in a nearby...

A Canadian spring skiing safari

Mine, mine, all mine, I thought greedily, as the lifts shut down and the last straggling day-trippers headed down the mountain. We were at Sunshine Mountain Resort on day three of our Canadian skiing safari. Over eight days, we notched five alpine and one Nordic areas...

8 tips for planning a train journey across Canada

Here are my eight tips for planning and making the most of a journey on The Canadian: 1. It’s not all about the Rockies: Though winding through Jasper National Park in the shadow of Mt. Robson (Canada’s highest peak) and viewing the Cariboo range are some of the...