Canadian Destinations

Romance the rails with your fingertips

By Jane Stokes

(NC )-Via Rail calls it matchmaking. The railway has launched a new website to
link potential travellers to the tour companies offering rail vacations in
Canada. Go to www.viarail.ca/packages for the list and details.

The site's user-friendly format helps you match a vacation with your particular
interests, including desired dates of travel and price range. Once you find a
travel package that interests you, one click will bring you to a complete
product overview of that vacation, as well as a direct link to the tour
operator.

No matter what regions you want to see -- from the Atlantic to the Pacific or
north to the sub-Arctic edge of Hudson Bay, the most relaxing way to watch the
beauty of Canada unfold is on the train. Rail travel, near or far, is a journey
into our founding history.

See the Rockies on the world-famous Silver & Blue train for example, or ride the
Skeena from Jasper to Prince Rupert. Sweep across the Gaspé on the Chaleur,
take the Hudson Bay train north to see the polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba,
or simply wine and dine, and 'shop 'til you drop' in the wide variety of
cosmopolitan cities all along the Windsor to Quebec corridor.