CANADA ON THE RAILS, WESTWARD THRU ONTARIO Thursday, September 22, at 10:00 PM Eastern Time, Penny and I ambled out of Union Station, Toronto, on a train taking us across our Native Land, mile by rolling mile, to Vancouver on the Pacific shore some 2700 miles away. The cityscape was dim, sparing the environment and us un-necessary glare; instead, the metropolis burned a low, incandescent glow, as we slipped away from it and into sleep. Now, we sit after breakfast next morning in the sky dome of our cross-Canada train as it eases its way into the quiet of the morning mist, through a land of rock face that yields gravel-stone tempered by lakes and gardened by nature with vegetation in autumn glory. We are into early north Ontario, a vast land, various generations of wooded
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