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Just back from Winnipeg
Hey I didn't know you were coming to Cannuckistan or I would have met you and we could have done some snowmobiling!!!  ....
BTW, most of Canada jokingly refers to it as "Winterpeg". You don't want to be there in the winter either, on the winter solstice, December 22nd, the shortest day of the year, the sun doesn't comes up until nearly 8:30 and goes back down at 4:30 giving you only about 8 hours of daylight, potentially!! .
In a couple of enterprising towns in northern Ontario they have things that look like parking meters, $25 cents gets you a half hour of electricity, the parking is free.
Do you ever get some strange looks if you put money in the 'parking meter' in the summer!!!
Glad you enjoyed it, now you have to come to Ontario and see the beautiful part of Canada, !!
Best of luck.
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Well if you're going to Oakville you'll be close, only about 1.5 hours from here, unfortunately in the wrong direction though. .
On most highways in Canada if you're not going at least 25% over the speed limit you're likely to get run off the road, and that's just from the nun driving the school bus!!!
Yes, they will rename all the highways, they did when 'Liz took over the throne, it took them weeks to change all the signs. The only highways that will not be named are the ones named after her in particular, like the one that the Ford plant is on in Oakville, which is the "Queen Elizabeth Way".
BTW, they changed the slogan on the plates a few years back, now Ontario plates say "Yours to discover" on them.
Enjoy the trip. Long way to come for a short visit, are you staying over, or down & back in the day?
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I think what they meant to say, or did but you mis-understood, was they are discontinueing the coast-to-coast passenger train.
The luxury train was very expensive, and took far to long for anyone but tourists and retirees.
Candian Pacific Railway still service in the west only on it's famous luxurious train, a 6 day tour of the Rockies, or fly-fishing tour will set you back a little over US$6,000 per person.
By comparison, Toronto to Vancouver on a 'regular' train, with private sleeping accomodations (it's a 3 day trip) will set you back about US$2,000 for the first person, about US$750 if you have a spouse with you.
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It's a marketing scheme, a very confusing marketing scheme.
They merely renamed a bunch of the trains. The "Canadian" used to be a cross-country line, now it is only Ontario and west.
To cross the country, Halifax to Vancouver, you have to take the "Ocean: line from Halifax to Montreal, where you switch onto the {"VIA 1" service to Toronto, where you again switch onto the "Canadian" for the Toronto to Vancouver portion of the trip.
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The train trip through the east is fantastic, the train passes through both unspoiled wilderness, and quaint little towns.
The one thing that a lot of tourists comment on is the wildlife. A number of years back I flew to Halifax and met my cousins arriving from Ireland, and we all took the train to Montreal and looked a round a bit then another to Toronto. It was awe inspiring to all of us. It was hard to tell which direction to look there was so many animals and such beatiful scenery.
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Canada is a real big place, although our friends to the south are aware of it, because their country is nearly as big, others are sometimes caught off guard and find it hard to fathom the size.
In high school I had a foriegn exchange student in one class, she was from Denmark, she came to school one morning all excited and asked who wanted to go for a drive on Saturday to meet her brother who was coming to Canada. He was in the merchant marine and his ship was going to be in Halifax!!! When I pointed out that Halifax was 2,000+ km's away (1,200+ miles) she just laughed and said Imust be wrong. When asked why she thought so, her answer was logical if not correct, she said "I looked a map, Toronto is about 1/4 of the way across the country from east to west, so it can't be very far to the coast.".
In another instance I told someone I had flown "to the coast and landed in the ocean" and they asked whether that was in the Maritimes or British Columbia to which I replied "neither, it was in Ontario!" at which point they stated "Your full of sh___!! Ontario is in the middle of the country, or do you mean the Great Lakes?".
It took some time for them to realize that 800 - 1,000 miles north of Toronto there is another ocean!!!
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From a purely business / logic point of view, it makes sense.
However, having said that, experience has taught me that generally when a political leader starts to make sense, it means they haven't told the full story, we're msiing something, or both!! .
Canada is 3,851,788 sq. miles, the US is 3,794,083 sq. miles in area.
Canada has a population of about 32 million , the US has more than 271 million people.
There are more people in just the State of California than all of Canada.
A few years back I bought a new GPS unit, it did all sorts aeronautical calculations for you, one function was to plot a route that would be "X" number of miles from what the Government considered a "built up" area, usefull for noisey aircraft or hazardous cargo trips.
I asked it to plot a route from right coast to left using a 50 mile setback from any "built up" areas the entire way. It couldn't do it, it kept saying "too many possibile routes". So I changed to a 100 mile setback, it still would do the calc., I finally only got an answer when I changed it to a 300 mile setback, then there were only about a DOZEN possible routes.
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Dave, if you are talking about *vacant* acreage it's more like 10 fold, not just double!! .
Kenneth, the 271 million only counts *legal* residents. If you include the illegals it's probably already getting close to the population of China..... LMAO!!!
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