All Aboard!

All aboard! Canada wouldn’t be the same without the railway.

This issue of Kayak explores what Canada gained and lost when we built our ribbon of steellink opens in new window. From passenger trains, to subways to the SkyTrain or tourist steam railways, we also look at all kinds of trainslink opens in new window—maybe you’ve travelled on one of them!

A missed train led Canadian Sir Sandford Fleminglink opens in new window to create a better system for time, including what we now know as time zones.

The railway was also the one place many Black men could get jobs when other businesses wouldn’t hire them—read all about railway porterslink opens in new window and how they stood together for fairer treatment.

You can also ponder which crazy railway jobs—navvy? gandy dancer? puncher?—are real and which are fake in the History Mysterylink opens in new window.

Find out where to visit to learn all about trainslink opens in new window in our history, and maybe even take a ride, and decide for yourself whether the railway was worth itlink opens in new window.