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A voyage covering thousands of miles.
From the ruggedly chiselled shoreline of Newfoundland, to the tidal waters of the Pacific that ebb and flow through the fjords slicing deep into the coast line of British Columbia. From the wind-swept grasslands, home of the drifting bison herds and the exquisite song of the meadow lark, north toward the Arctic Circle and beyond to the barren tundra which forms the edge of the Beaufort Sea. A voyage that proved to be the fundamental basis of an event-filled family saga. A voyage that led us to many special places and into the homes of even more special people. After more than three decades of exploring this vast country, we find ourselves becoming increasingly homesick for Canada with each passing year. With no end in sight we push on. The voyage is not over!
Kootenay Plains / Alberta
P. Frehner
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“Our national expansion was along rivers and lakes. That's why we feel some natural gravitation towards waterways… there are as many miles of inland waterways in Canada as in all the other nations of the world combined.”
Winner Take All / E.W. Morse, Geographer
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Rail tracks - the footprints of tough and reckless men, who sent the long trains out to link the tide waters.
In the late fifties, the steam engine's lone and mournful whistle disappeared from the rails after a century of being a good work horse. It was the time when a network of wood, steel, and coal linked men from all over the continent.
Abandoned railtrack between Cadomin and Mountain Park / Alberta
P. Frehner
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“That thin steel strip that crosses this country is the most important thing we have in Canada when it comes to trade….. Vancouver is an Asia-Pacific gateway only because we have a national railway system. If we didn't, the city would just be some backwater fishing village.”
C. Badger / Port metro Vancouver chief operating officer / Burrard Inlet / Vancouver
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Long train running - A job asking for trouble
“You know, the railroad, it isn't a job or a career. It's a lifestyle is what it is!”
G. Reid / Melville / Saskatchewan
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Rockbound Lake Trail
Bow Valley / Banff-Jasper National Park / Alberta
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Chasm
BC Rail / British Columbia
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Sunderland Channel
Kelsey Bay / British Columbia
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Midway
Kettle River Valley / British Columbia
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White Pass
Yukon
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What did the maple leaf do for Canada?
Cassiar Highway / British Columbia
P. Frehner
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Always keep an eye on your cooler box
Muncho Lake / British Columbia
P. Frehner
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Summit Pass
Stone Mountain Park / British Columbia
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A Rain Coast Rendez-vous
Clayoquot Sound / British Columbia
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Fall colours
Slocan / British Columbia
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Old Caribou Wagon Road
Cache Creek / British Columbia
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Tatlayoko Lake
British Columbia
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The man said:" Yes, I would like to be a big river", and the Transformer put his hand on the man's forehead and gave him a push. When he hit the ground he became a mighty river - the Nimpkish
According to a Kwakiutl legend / Strathcona Provincial Park / Vancouver Island
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Rendez-vous
Regina / Saskatchewan
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Highway cowboys
Moose Jaw / Saskatchewan
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Lakes Route to the gold fields
Seaton Portage / British Columbia
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Pulp mill / Quesnel / British Columbia
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Beaver pond
Riding Mountain National Park / Manitoba
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Cassiar Highway
British Columbia
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Muktuk Kennels
Yukon
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Greenwood
Crowsnest Highway / British Columbia
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Old-growth logging and raw-log exports continue on Vancouver Island, but critics say big-tree tourism is a far more sustainable economic force for our future.
Muchalat Inlet / British Columbia
Canadian Geographic
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Wetlands Trail
Creston / British Columbia
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Riding Mountain National Park
Manitoba
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Fall colours
Moose Jaw / Saskatchewan
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Rangeland
Aspen Grove / British Columbia
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Ride-out and Rendez-vous
Last Chance Saloon / Wayne / Alberta
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Summit Lake
British Columbia
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Lake Minnewanka
Banff - Jasper National Park / Alberta
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False Creek
Vancouver / British Columbia
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Burnaby Lake
Vancouver / British Columbia
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Lunch break in Moose Jaw
Saskatchewan
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Canada was built on the back of a member of the rat family. A fashion in men's hats helped open an east-to-west route across the northern half of one of the world's largest continents. That route - four-fifths of which can be traversed by canoe - did a thriving business in Canada from 1550 to 1835. Among the voyageurs, traders and “coureurs des bois” who surveyed and travelled it we find the famous the names of Alexander Mackenzie, Samuel Hearne, Pierre Radisson or Henry Kelsey
Riding Mountain National Park / Alberta
P. Frehner
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…. On the other hand, there were hoboes who passed and repassed with amazing frequency, and others, still, who passed like ghosts, close at hand, unseen, and never seen. It was one of the latter that I chased clear across Canada over three thousand miles of railroad, and never once did I lay eyes on him. His “monica” was Skysail Jack…..
The Road / Jack London
Carcross / White Pass and Yukon Route / Yukon
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He was born in the Bitterroot Valley in the early morning rain.
Wild geese over the water, heading north and home again.
Bringin' a warm wind from the south, bringin' the first taste of the spring.
Wild Montana Skies / J. Denver & E. Harris
Elk Island National Park / Alberta
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Sandon ghost town
Foothills Selkirk Mountains / British Columbia