The heading for the Latest PotW should read Canadian Pacific in Saskatchewan. Saskatoon is Saskatchewan’s largest city, several hundred miles north of the Canada US Border.
I tried to report this issue at the contact us section, but the verification box at the bottom of the page refuses to work.
I hope both of these issues can be dealt with quickly.
AgentKid
So what part of Manitoba is Saskatchewan in anyway??? (said the dumb american.)
Off topic- I wonder what the most and least visited Canadian Provinces would be, in terms of US visitors…assuming you care about such things?
BC and Ontario must lead. I’d guess that Sask, Manitoba and the Maritimes would rate considerably fewer visitors. Alberta has Banff, Calgary and Edomonton, which certainly are a draw. I’d guess that the Yukon Terr. does ok, but I’d have to guess that Nunavut trails at the tail.
I’ll be impressed if any Trains readers have been to Nunavut.
Jack, what about Quebec and the Maritimes?
Bruce, your remark about Saskatoon being “several hundred miles” from the U.S. border is stretching things a bit. It’s only about 100 miles from the border to Regina (AAA atlas) and from Regina up to Saskatoon, 146 miles (wikiland).
But your larger point is well taken. We down here would do well to bone up on our Provinces and Territories every now and then. Any Canadian I’ve met who has a high-school education knows a lot about the border states, and indeed a good deal more about the USA in general than we (collectively, Yanks) know about Canadian capitals. Canadians I’ve known handle questions like “What’s the capital of Toronto?” with fairly good grace, but underneath they worry about the viability of our secondary education. Oops, Allen, verging on politics…
It’s only ten of them uh oh, shouldn’t that be thirteen?) . It doesn’t take a genius or specialized information. AAA road atlas, for example, costs about six (U.S.) dollars at Wal-Mart, the non-sponsored bookstore type about a buck more. Canadian Provincial maps are included, as are driving distances and times from the U.S. border to at least one city in the more highly populated southern tier (Regina, Saskatchwan, for instance).
Yes, everyone pronounces it THAT way. That’s the right way! [:I] - a.s.
Thank you to the webmaster person who made the correction
It’s been many years since I was in Saskatchewan, especially considering we lived there when I was born. I had simply forgotten just how many miles it was from Saskatoon to the border.
The comment about the maritimes sparked another memory I now can’t find on the Internet, which I was looking for before I made this post. CPR President William Van Horne had his summer residence at St. Andrews, New Brunswick and somewhere on this web thing are photo’s of his private rail car as well as pictures of the private cars of several of his wealthy American buddies. The rich really were/are different. Maybe the pictures I was looking for were part of a limited time museum presentation.[sigh]
Thank you again to who ever fixed the heading
AgentKid