Word: canadas
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...year after the last spike was laid on the railway that joined the Dominion of Canada from coast to coast, the Prime Minister's wife, Lady Macdonald, traveled across the new country. For 600 miles of the trip she sat in a candle box attached to the cowcatcher on the front end of the train. There she was thrilled by "the novelty, the excitement and the fun of this mad ride...with magnificent mountains before and around me, their lofty peaks smiling down on us, and never a frown on their grand faces." More than a century later, the Rockies...
...train travel, but it is alive and well aboard the American Orient Express, the only private luxury train in North America. From March through November this year, you can choose from five regional itineraries or select a transcontinental rail journey, either from Washington to Los Angeles or across Canada between Vancouver and Montreal. The cost ranges from $2,490 to $6,990. There's a saving of $300 if you reserve six months in advance...
...RAIL'S ROYAL HUDSON A HANDSOME STEAM ENGINE FROM CANADA'S PAST...
King George VI and his wife Queen Elizabeth were so pleased with the Hudson locomotive on the train that carried them across Canada on their 1939 royal tour that they granted the title Royal to a group of Hudson locomotives. One of these, Locomotive 2860, traveled proudly through British Columbia for 16 years before it was forced off the tracks by diesel engines. Rescued from the Winnipeg scrap yards by the government of British Columbia, 2860 was refurbished in 1974 and is now the only steam engine in regular mainline service in North America. Tom Savio, a former stationmaster...
Personally, I don't like breaking the law, particularly federal law. So, rather than pay a fine or flee to Canada, I've decided to complete my form even more fully than the government wants me to, on the assumption that true privacy is impossible in the modern world and in the hope that the additional information will cause the bureau's computers to malfunction. What follows is a selection of actual questions from Census 2000, along with my replies...