Reaction To First Class Train Across Canada (Toronto to Vancover)
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This is my reaction to First Class Train Across Canada
In this video I react to a train journey across Canada from Toronto to Vancouver
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Original Video - • FIRST CLASS TRAIN Acro...
Just remember, Toronto to Vancouver is only 60% of the way across Canada - there’s another 2500+ km to the east of Toronto.
True enough,
true love
Absolutely, no territories, Quebec, Maritimes, Newfoundland. Missing a lot!
@@atlanticancestors1981And Manitoba remains a mystery, not surprised it is just meant to be, you can travel through it but only at night. 🤣 I am a Manitoban btw. Looks like a fabulous trip, I think I would like to take a train East from my mystery province to the Maritimes tho. Simply because I have travelled West to BC but haven’t seen much of Eastern Canada.
@@user-lw1qy4ep1j The Maritimes and Newfoundland are best seen by car. Several years ago, PEI removed the last of their rails. Left in their place is the 'Confederation Trail'. This 400km long walking/biking trail winds its way through the province - through villages, farmland, marshland and woods.
Canada has a very special kind of wine that isn’t well known. Ice wine.
The best ice wine is from Hernder Estate Wines, in St. Catherine's, Ont. 🥂
@@GirlsWithGuitars 🥂
I'm not sure about the 'not well known' part. We had visitors at work from Korea years ago and the the #1 thing they wanted to take home was ice wine.
@@margaretjames6494 perhaps some people know about it but when i lived in Europe no one there knew anything about it.
@@JT.Pilgrim Exactly. Just because it's not 'well known' in one area does not mean it isn't 'well known' in other parts of the world. That's the point.
I have worked for VIA Rail Canada for 37 yrs from 1976 to 2013 ,
I started as a Cook on the dining cars , my routes were from Montréal to Gaspé Québec or Montréal to Winnipeg Manitoba, back in those years train #1 lefts from Montréal to Vancouver BC , the Montréal crews went no further than Winnipeg,
I worker on board , in the coach yard in Montréal, at Central Station in Montréal,
As a telephone sales agent (reservations),
For the Human Resource department,
And the last 5 years of my career as a Store Keeper , i was responsible for ordering all food, beverages and equipment to supply our trains from Halifax Nova-Scotia to Toronto Ontario.
My Grand dad worked for 10 yrs for the Grand Trunk Railways back in 1910,
My dad for 22 yrs for CN and VIA
My brother for 36 yrs for CN and Alstom ,
My sister for 23 yrs for VIA
My other brother for 42 yrs for CN
My sister in law for 10 yrs for CN
My nephew for 12 yrs for CN
The rail roads is a great big family affaire for us as you can see.
I just love your very genuine excitement as you discover so much about my Mother Country. You have the true adventurer's spirit. My Father did too, and I love experiencing through your joyful spirit.
It was great to take the UA-cam train journey with you, Mert!
Love your comments about our beautiful country. My husband and I drove from Nova Scotia to Fort Nelson, British Columbia and back through the United States. It was a wonderful trip on both sides of the border. So glad that we were able to do it🥰
Hi neighbour! I'm from NB. 🙂👋
took this train three weeks ago...Prestige Class is expensive, yes...but sleeper class is available at more realistic prices...upper berth 499CAD, lower berth 559 CAD...these are like couchettes...roometes, cabins for 1 person, range from 1299CAD to 2159CAD for the room depending on season, bedrooms for 2 persons, 2159CAD to 4000CAD for the room...prestige runs 4000CAD per person to 7000CAD per person, depending on the season and the room layout
It's hard to beat Okanogan
Valley wines! Some of the best in Canada for sure.
Sorry. Disagree. I'm not from Ontario but I think the Niagara Peninsula wines are better.
We have several wine regions in Canada. The Niagara area in Ontario and the Okanagan Valley in BC are 2 of the best, but there are others as well.
Prince George has a winery. It uses local fruit/berries
Although highways can be absolutely gorgeous, the train goes through rougher and more wild and isolated areas..... love it, that is the way to drink in the beauty of the place, and where you are, no worrying about traffic, just....... love the trip, let your eyes drink.
When my German Gramma and relatives came to visit us in Alberta, we made sure to drive and camp for a couple weeks at the Okanagan, mountains, but gramma always had such big unbelieving eyes at the prairie skies.... we call it big sky country for a reason, for sure....... and it can be dull in areas, but so beautiful in others. But that sky, the sunsets and sunrises.... my God. The colours.
Saskatchewan is known as "The Land of Living Skies" which, personally, I think sounds so much better.
My husband and I took the train from Edmonton to Halifax in 2019. It was a wonderful trip, relaxing and so enjoyable. We met new people at meal times, saw countryside that you can’t see from the road and travelled in a more humane manner. I’d love to go west next time.Edit: That’s not Mount Robison coming into Jasper, it’s Mount Edith Cavell.
The Rocky Mountaineer train offers overnight stays in 5-Star hotels along the route from Banff to Vancouver. I have family members who have taken it and they raved about it. The train trip from Ontario to the west coast is on my bucket list. Thanks for the great video. Thoroughly enjoy your channel. Always something interesting about my country. 👏👏🇨🇦🇨🇦
The Rocky Mountaineer is wonderful and it's a big bonus that you stop overnight, so you never miss any of the scenery while you sleep.
There is more to Canada than from Vancouver to Toronto. This can't be called a trip across Canada. Canada includes Quebec,the Maritimes and Newfoundland and Labadour. The latter being and Island and the most eastern coastline can't be traveled by train.
I flew from Toronto to Vancouver and it ended up being an amazing place i have i ever seen. i loved mountains and the fact that there was a beach
When I drove from Winnipeg to Vancouver I was surprised how many hills there are through the western half of Manitoba and into Saskatchewan. It’s not as flat as everyone says. Alberta feels like American Rockies and BC feels like Switzerland. BC mountains feel bigger and like there’s more of them.
I found that the mountains in Alberta are intimidating because of their size. Gorgeous! I'm a British Columbian.
It's because the Canadian government, for obvious reasons, put the Trans Canada Hwy through the flattest part of the prairies. At bit north of where I live in Saskatoon is Prince Albert National Park , which in places reminds me of parts of BC 😊
It's nice to hear from someone far away who appreciates the beauty of the Canadian Prairies. If people just see a few pictures, or read about it, it's understandable that they would think it's a whole lot of nothin' --- but when you experience it in real life, you figure out that it's splendid. Mert Can gets it without having seen it, so he's got a special gift of insight.
I live in southern Saskatchewan near the US border in a community called Rockglen. Unbelievable scenery.
@@billfarley9167 Yup. I've passed through. Maze of gullies and gulches, big lake nearby with nice beaches. Not very far from the wondrous Cypress Hills with their rich flora and fauna. Definitely Big Sky.
I think it was rather funny when he said he did not have local because to eat Ginger Beef. Ginger Beef was developed in Calgary Alberta's China town. It is also my favourite . The journey through the Rockies is truly mind-blowing. Whether it in a car or a train, the journey is spectacular. I have been to meny places all over the world, but nothing compares to my home of Alberta. I never get bored of the mountains and spend most of my free time there. The beautiful sites and the old world feel, I always get nostalgic when there for Canada 1900. I do not know why, but old mountaineers and prospecting consume me. I loved this video. I have taken a train from Edmonton to Vancouver, and the trip is incredible. I will have to take a train to the east sometime.😊
Let's hear it for Canadian multiculturalism, which has greatly influenced our "local" cuisine! 🇨🇦
BEWARE OF YOUR ARRIVAL IN WINNIPEG. TIME ZONE CHANGE IN TIME. MY PARENTS AND I ALMOST MISSED THE LAST TRAINCAR LEAVING THE STATION...WOW! CLOSE CALL.😮😮😮
Came here tosay that😂
The train goes through my childhood town in Northern Ontario, the sheer number of lakes are astounding, I live in Toronto now but still go north several times a year to take in the beauty of the north of my youth and hike the trails.
early 70's Montreal to Jasper and back what a memorable journey. So many lakes to canoe it would take more than a life time
Love your videos Mert. You've got a great intuitive sense about the places you cover, which reflects in your commentary. I'm from Toronto (with direct British and Scottish family roots) and I have always wanted to do this trip. There are some lovely train trips right here in Ontario. There is a run that sets out from Sault Ste. Marie in northern Ontario that goes up to a beautiful place called Agawa Canyon, with a two hour stopover. I've done it twice in the summer, but would love to also do the Fall and the Winter train runs. I grew up with three beautiful cottages in rugged Haliburton, Ontario on east Moore's lake. I'd take rugged beauty over tropical any day. Have also taken a train run up to Moosonee just south of James Bay, known as the Gateway to the Arctic. Canada is a beautiful expansive country no doubt about it, and I love to view things through your thoughtful eyes. Thank you for appreciating my country and taking us on your journeys. 👍
You can get from the east coast to the west by rail and by the highway. Train has advantage of being like a rolling hotel. Highway has advantage of you having the choice of where to stop and look around and stay. As Canada was connected by the railway it passes through small towns which are very different but somehow all typically Canadian. Need way more time to drive of course 😁 For an idea of small town Canada and the people of these towns in much less time there is a CBC series in it's 9th season called Still Standing. ( not U.S. sitcom of same name) Actor / Comedian from Newfoundland, Jonny Harris, visits towns that have experieced the loss of the industry that the town relied on and how they found a new way to continue. As he learns he makes up a stand-up comedy routine and performs it for the townspeople. CBC has streaming channel called Gem for all of CBC content. Don't know about accessing outside of Canada.
Love Jonny Harris!
He is a loveable guy for sure!! Who else can make people laugh over their tragedies and show all of us that no matter where you go, we have awesome people in these small towns. Like Neil Young being from Omemee Ont.
I live in Windsor, Ontario. Latitude-wise we're around Northern California. There are TONS of wineries in Southern Ontario. Hell, a friend of mine recently opened one.
Napa and Sonoma in California are quaking in their boots ... not.
I live in the the Niagara Region surrounded by dozens of wineries ❤
I took this train going from Toronto to Jasper and first class was worth EVERY penny!
I have taken "The Canadian" 51x since 1964. It actually started operating in 1955. In the summer the train can have 30 cars & have to be split on 3 platforms when arriving in Vancouver.
The important thing to remember about the “Canadian” and the “Ocean” trains is that they are twice or thrice a week services. Europeans believe once a day services are very low, imagine having even less.
The “Canadian” still uses Budd built stainless steel streamliner rolling stock initially purchased by the Canadian Pacific RR (CP) in the 1950s, so the cars are approximately 70 years old. While the rolling stock is CP, the route is Canadian National RR (CN).
The “Canadian runs Vancouver to Toronto, the “Ocean” runs Montreal to Halifax. You would need to add a corridor day train between Toronto and Montreal to complete a coast to coast cross Canada train trip.
I did the journey by Coach in '76, which was quite the experience .. !
Interesting that he liked the ginger beef the most thinking it was the furthest from local. It was created at a Calgary Alberta restaurant, so it is also a local dish.
Yes! Ginger Beef is clearly based on the traditional Cantonese and Hakka dish called Geung Ngao Yuk, but its flavourful sauce originated in Calgary. Local chef George Wong is usually credited with its creation. He was obviously taking advantage of Calgary's cowboy/cattle culture and the fabulous fresh beef available there. Ginger Beef is a standard dish across Canada, and is often described as a classic Canadian dish. But it's actually gettubg hard for me find it in Toronto, which is filled with "authentic" Chinese restaurants run by recent immigrants. The "Old Canadian Chinese" style of cooking, which was once found in mom and pop restaurants in every town in the country, is getting hard to find these days. But if you ask around the city, you can find a good old-fashioned Ginger Beef.
I've taken that train not only from Vancouver to Toronto, but all the way to Nova Scotia back in 2010. I did change trains in Toronto. Back then there was no first class option. Cabin for two was the most "luxurious" option. During that trip I did economy (from Vancouver to Jasper), 1-person cabin (Jasper to Toronto), economy again (Toronto to Montreal), and then 2-person cabin (Montreal to Halifax). It was a solo cross-Canada trip for me in October. It was amazing to see the weather change from rainy (Vancouver) to sunny (Toronto), to cold and snowy (Montreal) and to freezing (Halifax). Surprisingly, the most memorable aspect was not the scenery but the people. I met so many nice people on board from different countries and shared/heard many amazing stories. To be very honest, if I were to do it again, I'd stop in every big city and rent a car to visit the region for a few days before moving on. That way I will actually see more of the country. That said, I will always cherish the memories from 2010 in that beautiful retro train The Canadian and the friendly fellow passengers and crew. I'd recommend it to anyone in a heartbeat!
That's a trip I would like to do! Brilliant!!! What I like about trains is they don't sink.
Being from Alberta with relatives in B.C. and Saskatchewan I take our prairie scenery for granted. I just have to say that Northern Alberta and Sakatchewan are way more hilly, full of trees and wonderful clean lakes to fish and camp at.
Let's hear it for the badlands, one of my favourite parks of Canada!
Most of the western wineries are in the Okanagan Valley. When I was growing up in the 70's and 80's the Okanagan was well known for their fruit orchards, but in the last few decades the Wineries are right up there.
Enjoyed watching with you. Loved your authentic reactions 🫶 Take care…
My grandfather on my father's side was a supervisor building tunnels in the Rockies in the early 1900's. He died in 1930 so obviously I never got to know him. My great grandmother on my mother's side went west on a wagon train before there was a railway.
First class is FANTASTIC, but also so is coach! We did coach on several occasions and it was a fantastic ride. First class is nothing to sneeze at either. Specially the dinning part. its like traveling back in the 1950s trains. And you can choose to enjoy the hole trip privately in your own cabin or you can sit in the social car with others and have drinks along the way (though I am not thrilled about drinking while traveling.
Born near the beach in Vancouver, grew up on the Island, currently live in Toronto, took many, many, many road trips throughout the provinces across Canada and within Canada almost every year to see my exceeding large family who live everywhere in this country. Until I was in my 30s I actually travelled the routes from BC to Québec so often, first with my family and later with my friends, I could do it without maps of any kind. Staying with members of my large and disparate family who were the locals across the country, or camping under the sky was a very affordable way to get to know and appreciate this beautiful country. Since I moved 5000+ km for university I've now made a number of trips east, again staying with friends. It all feels like home. 🍁
After this rail was completed, it was easier to travel from London to Hong Kong or Malaysia by Canadian Pacific steamships and rail, than to sail around Cape Horn. And there's a string of grand railway hotels to stay at as well. Steamships on two oceans, a continental railway and grand hotels - this was once one of the greatest travel routes in the world.
Well, I know the train that goes into Tibet from Hong Kong is a Canadian train. It was made in Canada.
I've made the journey half a dozen times in a road vehicle (all the way to Cape Breton and out to Vancouver Island), but this train journey has always been on my bucket list!
Uh Oh!! Looks like someone has caught "Canuck Fever" lol!!! The only way to get over it is to come and visit our beautiful country. Personally, I'd take a few weeks and do a cross country road trip. Amazing!
I cant believe they didnt featur the rock cuts , sheer drops and goats
Having lived in Western Canada (born in the Yukon moved as a baby to Saskatchewan then Alberta then British Columbia and now back to Saskatchewan and Saskatoon) I've done the train trip a few times ( x2 across Canada from BC to New Brunswick) however I cannot begin to count the times we have driven across the Praries through themountains to Vavouver. Even that trip can get humdrum which is why I LOVE seeing this through fresh eyes!😊😊
Mert, you should watch this couple's adventure through the rockies on the Rocky Mountaineer. Congrats on 15K subscribers!!
The way he said Mt Robson, lol. He said it like row, when its said like the name Rob. Mt Rob-son.
i did the train trip from Edmonton to Toronto in May, it was amazing!! I love it, if I had the money I would do it again!
I live hours from the Rockies at Jasper Ab & BC border and been to Banff and Jasper many times. I will tell you it's the most awesome place on earth! Totally blue mountain scenery, turquoise lakes and rivers and beautiful car rides. Just don't speed because of the many wildlife on the highways. Love their living bridges too. That's overhead bridges over highways that is created for wildlife to travel or and even live on since they constructed a forest on them.
i think most regions in canada do produce wine ontario , nova scotia ,saskatchewan i would guess quebec and british columbia these region all seem to have areas that are excellent for wine production
There are some in the eastern townships in Québec.
There are no ways to reach places through the Rockies except by CP mainline. Truly miraculous! Cheers mate!
In 1971 I left home at 15. I went to Banff from Montreal(my home at the time). It was 80 $ coach all the way. Coach had a retractable seat like a bus
but it's a long time to be sitting lol
It is funny that they say the ginger beef was the furthest thing from local food....Ginger beef was a recipe invented in Calgary Alberta in the 70s....so yes it was local food :D
note...you can travel coach class for about 299CAD to 399CAD, but no meals are included...sleeper class includes all meals
I'd been thinking about sending you a link about The Canadian, so I'm glad you got this video from someone. My father worked for CN (Canadian National Railway, which eventually became Via Rail), so I have travelled coast to coast via train repeatedly in my life, and it's my favourite way to travel! It's more relaxed and laid-back than air travel, and also much more social and communal, because you have opportunities to move around and engage with others in the observation, dining and games cars, as well as the lounge and bar cars. When I was growing up, my parents, siblings and I would also take the train from Montreal (where we were then living) to Winnipeg to spend Thanksgiving, Christmas and summer vacations with our grandparents and extended families, and I still feel a deep nostalgia when it comes to rail travel ☺. I've been enjoying watching you make your own discoveries about our beautiful country, and appreciate your curiosity LOL!
Beavertails is great. Still have the Aussie style hat from Grizzly that I bought there around 2014. Is my fave hat, wear it all the time, and the photos and locations around Jasper, breathtaking, Pyramid mountain lake is beautiful, the whole place brings you closer to God. Breathtaking, and Beaver Tails is a wonderful little bakery and gift shop.... the whole of the town is so beautiful.
Yay Northern Ontario on the shores of Lake Superior! That’s where I live and it’s beautiful scenery.
Canada has a fantastic wine industry. Mainly in 3 major grape growing areas. The Okanagan in BC , the Niagra region in Ontario (a new area in Eastern Ontario Prince Edward County , and a region in Nova Scotia called the Annapolis Valley.
The Rocky Mountaineer runs between Vancouver and Banff and is fairly epic!
Current price for Prestige class: ~ $6500 per person. You can also go Sleeper Plus (Cabin for 2) for $2519. That is without all of the extra benefits of Prestige.
39:20 The two most renown areas of Canada for wine, are Southern Ontario, and the BC Interior, Okanagan district.
My father worked for CN and in those days he would receive a family pass (50's-60's years) , we could travel free by coach if seating was available. Coach are the cars with just seats, much like traveling by bus but we could go to the diner cars , and the dome car etc.Traveled from Winnipeg to Vancouver.
The Okanagan Region of BC is known for it's wine and vineyards :) I live in Kamloops and the scenery here and around is very unique and beautiful. There is a trail to hike that goes along the lake (Kamloops Lake) featured in the video. Every time I have hiked it, the trains go by. Stunning.
Back in 2008 when I moved from Ontario to pei my children and I took via rail from Toronto to muncton, it was such a great trip I’ve always wanted to do it again. The latest snowfall I’ve witnessed in pei was June 6, I worked in a tourist shop and the customers were so surprised by the snow, was funny. Nearby is a vineyard called rossignol and they make a delicious cranberry wine I buy every year to serve at Christmas to my guests. They also have a maple syrup wine which is good but very sweet.
I used to take the cross country often, never prestige class. A sleeper birth is much more affordable and if you havee you ticket you can have stop overs anywhere along the way , and return to the next train .and continue , you can do that as often as yoi want . i liked the ability to visit many places. The area between jasper and vancouver is absolutely the best thing you ll ever see
It's funny, a train from Toronto to Winnipeg looks just like a train from Quebec to Nova Scotia
I have driven that same journey along the Trans Canada Highway
My mom and I took this trip last year splurging on a Sleeper Plus cabin (just under $5000 CAD each). You can book a single cabin at slightly more expensive tickets as is usual for accommodating singles. We actually took Toronto to Vancouver, overnighted in Vancouver and then took it back to Toronto. The train service, accommodation and views is bar none and worthy of once in a lifetime experience. If you're not a young looking single female, it's great socializing too. If you a young looking single female like me, be prepared to be treated like a cliché of a 20 year old instead of the 42 year old you are by wives who think their husbands are Pulitzer Prizers during meal times. My mom and I ended up requesting room service from Winnipeg to Vancouver and the whole way back from Vancouver to Toronto. We enjoyed it that much more and heavily tipped our concierge and food services. The food is 5 star and the service treat you like royalty, or at least as it feels to us laymen.
Concierge will accommodate your requests as best as they can. We also requested that our bunk beds stay in bed formation for how whole trip. We just felt more comfortable looking out the window from the lower bed.
I've done this west to east. My final destination was London Ont. We were over 20 hours late into Toronto after numerous and lengthy delays, including 8 hours in Winnipeg. Since my connection was missed, Via put me in a taxi for my final leg from Toronto to London!
Your enthusiasm and appreciation for seeing the Canadian prairies is commendable. They really are beautiful, with horizon to horizon skies (hello northern lights!!) and endless farmland but also massive boreal forests and even sand dunes like something straight out of the Sahara in northern Saskatchewan. Tourism Saskatchewan has done some great work highlighting some of these things with their Saskatchewanderer channel here on UA-cam.
🍁 wines are award winning. Especially, OKanagon BC wines.
There are several wine regions in Canada (B.C., Ontario, New Brunswick. P.E.I) but perhaps the most famous is the Niagra region in Ontario on the coast of Lake Ontario. It offers a rather unique microclimate due to being sandwiched between the lake and the Niagra Escarpment. The Niagra region is also ironically the worlds largest producer of Ice Wine.
It's all relative. To us who live on the west coast, the most famous wine region (and produces by far the best wine) is BC's Okanagan Valley. The East definitely makes the Ice Wine, though.
Wine in Canada Pelee island. Niagara Vineland. Vancouver are the places I know of. My Parents flew to Vancouver and took this train back to Toronto
One of the best Canadian wines I ever had was in British Columbia. In the Okanagan Valley near Hope, BC there is a winery called Ripples Winery. They make their wines with grapes and they also make some delectable blueberry wines. Our favourites are the Intemperance, which is a blueberry wine with the slightest hint of liquorice flavour and the Radience, a sparkling blueberry wine. They also make a variety of spirits, if you are in the area be sure to check it out.
In 84 we took this train from our small town of Carberry Manitoba to Vancouver. The train stopped right at our town siding as we had requested
I have taken the train from Halifax to Toronto. But we had to change trains in Montreal. The train actually cut through the northern United States on it's way to Montreal
mert was so excited to watch
Wine is mainly produced in two regions. The Niagara valley in Ontario and the Okanagan Valley in BC. I'm biased because I grew up in the Okanagan and my family had a vineyard. The climate in south central BC is very hot and dry, and not what most people think of when they think of Canada. It resembles Napa with lakes.
It's a shame that the interior of BC always gets skipped in videos like this. They tend to go from the Rockies to Vancouver and skip everything in between.
Lots of great wine in Canada - Okanagan Valley and Vancouver Island in BC, Niagara in Ontario and in Nova Scotia and Quebec too.
I did CN rail west one way with Jimi Page and his Outrider composition. Got off in Saskatchewan and ordered a pizza.
It takes as long to cross Ontario over the Great Lakes as it does to cross the prairies and B.C.
I would love to take the train, always wanted to drive across the full length of trans canada, but the train would be so much more wild, ach, someday.
I loved the host's shout out to Michael Downie!
19:01 My son just took the Canadian(this week) - he had a Sleeper Plus cabin and he was the only occupant.
Nice! They have the entire car to themselves.
To be fair, they did say they were sharing with a whole tour group - they just didn't show us the times when everyone was up and about.
I've been on that train twice in Prestige class and am planning a Christmas/ New years trip. Can't wait: it will be THE party.
Locomotive Engineer for VIA Rail, grew up in the railway as I am a 3rd generation railroad engineer. I have taken the train numerous times and I know I am biased but love travelling by train. You can go coast to coast in Canada by train, The Ocean runs from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Montreal, Quebec. Then take any of the commuter trains from Montreal to Toronto, Ontario. Then the Canadian. Downie Live, a Canadian UA-camr did a series where he did that exact trip, with stops for a few days in each province to explore and learn about the areas. If you ever end up taking the VIA let me know and when you come through Winnipeg I can give you some pointers on where to explore.
I have done Saskatoon to Montreal and variations within several times. There is nothing else like it on Earth.
Although, when they talked about the timeline from Toronto to Vancouver. I laughed, I laughed, laughed. The train is almost always delayed, leaving Toronto. I grew up in Northern, Ontario, it wasn't unusually for the train to be several hours late.
That being said, while generally very expensive and often delay as they share with freight, everyone should try to do the Toronto to Vancouver journey at least once in your life.
truly excellent video...thanks for sharing
There is a lot of spectacular wine coming out of British Columbia interior as well as on salt Spring Island
Not on a train but have been coast to coast in Canada during my lifetime. Most of the provinces have breathtaking scenery but once you hit Jasper or Banff going west the scenery is beyond breathtaking.
The price for a Prestige cabin is for the room itself. Whether there are one or two people occupying the room does not matter. With taxes, it comes to roughly $13,000 in summer (high season) and #11,000 in winter.
$4,500 is a few bucks, for sure, and the 'amenities' are very nice... but the scenery is priceless, and the 'experience', is what you're really paying for.
As mentioned, the train runs on freight rail lines... that wasn't always so, but these days, train travel across Canada is NOT a normal mode of transport... hence the train having to sideline and pause for freight trains to pass... this is truly, a 'luxury trip'.
We had, still have, two national railways, (CN, Canadian National, and CP, Canadian Pacific, but as I said, they have turned their biz model into freight service.), and they now share tracks with each other to accommodate freight.
And, finally, I was gonna mention another rail experience that is beyond expectations, but the original you reacted to mentioned it... The Rocky Mountaineer... if you, like the persons you reacted to, love the western Canadian scenery, etc... the Mountaineer delivers!... if that rail journey was like a fine dining experience, the Mountaineer is like binge eating your favourite comfort food. they have several different journeys ranging from 3 days, to, I think, a couple weeks... all rockies, all the time. I've done two trips with them... and they don't disappoint. (Runs up and down the west coast, through various mountain routes, etc... check it out!👍🏼✌🏼🇨🇦
If you look at the map of Canafa youll see that you are only seeing half our country..they left out the other parts of Canada, New Foundlsnd, Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories and The Yukon.
Ps. You have to look up Canadian wild rice and ice wine.
28:10 It's why we call it 'Big Sky country"
Decent road trip from BC to Nova Scotia, about 16-20 days. If you're in a hurry, you can drive from Alberta to Nova Scotia in under 50 hours.
My dad hitchhiked across Canada twice on foot. So you should go on that train and go from West to East. And then you'll see what Canada is really about.
the trip looked great but eastern is great too threw\ \Quebec and the maritime provinces I we have driven from Ontario too into British columbia through alberta driving is a different experience
this was a good video thanks for sharing We live in Southwest Ontario about 4 hours from toronto
Canadian wine is excellent, a number of regions are absolutely ideal and have grown grapes for many, many decades. However the wine market in North America was not as big or as discerning as it was in other parts of the world. Canadian vineyards grew fairly generic varieties for bulk sale for grape juice - a very popular drink here - and for cheap basic wines. I'm not is sure about when Ontario made the change, but in 1990, the growers in the Okanagon decided that they were seeing a poor return on their efforts and since they had the ability and conditions to produce premium grapes and wines, they formed an association to assure quality. Many Canadians wines have won international competitions, and Canada also leads the world in the Ice Wine market, which is a whole other topic.
I'm not a wine buff, but I think it was in the '60s or '70s that Europe was hit by some sort of blight that destroyed most of its vineyards, to restock them, vines were sent from north America - primarily California to restock them. Of course these were varieties that had been transplanted from Europe in the first place, but it does put in a dent in the theories of European vines being superior. The grapes themselves are pretty international, if you have good growing conditions, there is no reason that newer vineyards cannot produce wine that matches or exceeds the quality of older more historical places.
wines are produced in British Columbia and Ontario...main grapes.., Riesling, Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Sauvignon Blanc, Baco Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Pinot Noir...top choices are Rieslings, Chardonnays, Baco Noirs and Pinot Noirs
Wine is produced in Kelowna, Kamloops, Chilliwack, Abbotsford and on Vancouver Island ( these I know for sure- there maybe other areas)
I've made this trip. Just fabulous.
Did this a few years ago. We had a stowaway passenger. Only got discovered on the last night wine and cheese when he got belligerent demanding more wine. Lol
another great train experience , only shorter, while in Canada, is The Polar Bear Express. from Chochrane ontario up to James Bay.
Canada makes world class wines. British Columbia and Ontario have a substantial wine industry along with many fruit orchards.
I don't know about the whole train ride. I drive this route every year, it's 4.5 days or 4 through the USA. Ie; 40-44 hrs.
If I did it in 97hrs I could see a lot more too.
I would consider taking the train just through the mountains though.
Canada desperately needs a modern rail system in my opinion.
He’s incorrect when he says ginger beef is the furthest thing from local. That style of ginger beef was invented in Calgary, AB.