Tag: Canadian National Railways

  • E.C. EVERETT SERIES, NO. 1 – Traveling Salesman

    The Huckster(1)    From 1917 to 1944 I continued making weekly trips on the Canadian National Railway from Nipigon to Hornepayne and sometimes as far as Foleyet by wayfreight(2), box car, dog team, velocipeder (3), bicycle, or by walking the track carrying anything from a packsack and two big suitcases up to six trunks filled…

    Read More

    //

  • TIME TRAVEL TO ATIKOKAN – Part 2 of 2

    For lunch we met Linda and Cheech, life-long friends, to whom we last spoke twenty-five years ago. We ate Chinese at the Nite Club. Nobody wore evening dress. The fog was lifting, and before we left the sun was shining  ̶  as per the forecast. Hey, Environment Canada is entitled to be right once in…

    Read More

    //