Western Canada Archives - TRAINS & TRAVEL WITH JIM LOOMIS

Vancouver Island – Stopping for Little Berries and Big Birds

ByJim Loomis 08/28/201211/07/2014

It was near midnight by the time our ferry finally docked at Port Hardy near the northern end of Vancouver Island. We had ordered a taxi for the 20-minute ride to our hotel, but it was scooped by one of the other passengers, so we ended up taking “the shuttle”, which was, in fact, a…

Traveling and Dining in Style on VIA’s # 1 Train

ByJim Loomis 11/28/200811/04/2014

I’ve written several times about VIA Rail’s premier train, the Canadian, appropriately designated as Train # 1 (westbound) and Train # 2 (eastbound). It runs three days a week between Toronto and Vancouver. This is a marvelous trip, with scenery on the east-to-west trip that progresses from farmland to raw wilderness to the great plains…