Reading and thinking to read the article and underlying the distance markers. seeing the true north fire rail vancouver on the heart of canada, leda u. And her cousin lew chin went to canada to visit their cousins in halifax on the atlantic coast, rather than traveled by commercial airline all the way, they decided to fly to vancouver and then take the train for both of them. The thought of crossing the whole country by rail was exciting. Before starting out, they spent a couple of days in vancouver seeing the sites during their first day. As is typical of vancouver, IT rained despite the weather. They were able to take a boat ride out into the bay and later visiting island that had wonderful shop selling, crafts, an antique. The next day was clear and mild, and they were pleased to see the beautiful mountains looking out over the city. Later, they took a pleasant hike in a forest just a short distance away. The next morning, the two girls arose early to take the train to lake luis, passing through the canadian rockies. Seen from the train window, the mountains and forests of canada looked massive. When the train arrived at the station, they took a taxi to lag luis, where the blue water literally took their breath away with its exceptional beauty. They spent the night and then took a coach bound north through the canadian rockies to jasper. Looking at the beautiful scenery, they both agreed that IT was the most awesome journey they had ever taken. In addition to seeing spectacular mountain peaks and forests, one highlight of their trip was being able to see many different creatures, including deer, mountain goats and even a greely bear and an eagle from jasper. They caught the train towards toronto. One of the train's first stops was in edgington, the provincial capital of Albert, the center of canada y's huge oil and gas drilling industry. Edmonton is freezing cold in winter, with daily temperatures averaging minus ten, since I can be too cold to go outdoors, edmonton is home to many shopping mall. In fact, one of the largest shopping modes in north amErica is in edmonton. From Edmundton, the train headed southeast across the great canadian primary at school. Die NN had learned that canada's population is only slightly over thirty seven million. However, they did not anticipate seeing such an open country and were truly amazed. They went through two weak growing provinces where they saw a bunch of farms that covered a very large area. After another day on the train, eventually they were back in an urban area, the city of winnipeg. From there, they traveled through the night and woke up in ontario, a land of forests and lakes. The train funded on through the rolling hills, the bushes in maple trees outside their windows were red, gold and orange. And there was frost on the ground confirming that autumn had arrived in canada night, came again on the train, turned south towards toronto when they woke up the next morning and pulled back the curtains. They could see the wide stretch of lake here in one of the four great lakes on ontario southern border. IT was not until nine thirty AM. That they finally reached the capital of ontario, toronto. All in all, their trip from vancouver to toronto had taken a duration of four days.