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719 Rocky Mountaineer; Gulf Islands BC; Global Perspective; Piecing Together America

Travel with Rick Steves

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Train Beyond the Mountains: Journeys on the Rocky Mountaineer

Train Beyond the Mountains, Journeys on the Rocky Mountaineer celebrates a remarkable train line that really helped tie Canada together. There was a national dream which was to have then the colony of British Columbia become a province and join all of Canada. He kept it from becoming part of Washington State and the commitment of the government in Ottawa was to build a railway. So the Canadian Pacific Railway is historic but the challenges of the geography through the Rocky Mountains are also celebrated because of the scenery.

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