A railway station is the perfect setting for a farewell song, and the video for singer Emm Gryner’s Math Wiz is proving the perfect vehicle for her community’s plea to have Via Rail service restored.
Trains to many southwestern Ontario locations were cut last year in what Via called “right-sizing” of its service. But communities who depended on passenger trains say they haven’t given up on having those trips restored. Read the full story
CANADA – Hockey on a frozen pond, a fresh Tim Hortons coffee and a red Maple Leaf.
Like legendary musician Gordon Lightfoot, all classic symbols of the true north strong and free.
Zipping across the prairies on a spring afternoon, leaving the regal Rocky Mountains behind, is another iconic symbol of life north of the 49th parallel – VIA Rail’s flagship luxury liner, The Canadian. Read the full story
MONTREAL, June 28 /CNW Telbec/ – VIA Rail Canada is proud to be an official sponsor of Toronto Pride Week. As part of the 30th anniversary festivities and in partnership with Conxity, VIA is offering a unique “Ride to Pride” package on specifically designated VIA Pride Trains from Windsor, Ottawa and Montréal. Read the full story
Today, the Honourable Rob Merrifield, Canada’s Minister of State (Transport) and Donald A. Wright, VIA Rail Canada Chairman of the Board, announced the third year of VIA Rail’s Canadian Forces Family Appreciation fares to celebrate the contribution made to the country by Canada’s military personnel and veterans. They were joined at the Ottawa Train Station by the Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Minister of State (Agriculture); the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Marc Laliberté, VIA Rail Canada President and CEO. Read the full story
OTTAWA — Faster trains, more frequency and punctuality are among the priorities of the new boss at Canada’s national passenger rail service.
After a difficult year in 2009, with declining revenues because of the global economic slowdown, Via Rail’s newly minted president says he expects to see ridership levels grow as new investments make train trips more attractive than travelling by road or air. Read the full story
Kingsbrae Garden, for the fifth year running, will be among a series of feature gardens on the VIA Rail Garden Route.
Now in its fifth year, the VIA Rail Garden Route program highlights 18 of Canada’s most magnificent feature gardens as well as 27 5-Bloom Communities in Bloom destinations and a growing number of local garden attractions along VIA’s Halifax to Vancouver Island network.
Kingsbrae Garden in St. Andrews offers 27 glorious acres of horticultural marvels, with more than 50,000 perennials, shrubs and trees in many themed gardens, a genuine functioning Dutch windmill (1/3 scale), alpacas, peacocks, pygmy goats, ponds, Canada’s first “Jurassic Living Fossil” wollemi pine, acres of virgin Acadian forest and numerous other attractions.
Kingsbrae Garden also presents its second annual National Sculpture Competition this year. Entries are submitted from Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia.
Kingsbrae Garden is open from May 21 to Oct. 9. Guided tours are available.
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