Talk:The Canadian

message: VIA did not assume responsibility for The Canadian on January 12 1977.  This was the date when CN created VIA as a subsidiary company for its passenger services.  VIA did not become a separate Crown corporation until April 1978 (when it still only operated CN's passenger services).  It wasn't until October 1978 that CP gave control of its passenger services to VIA (along with equipment and stations), and it wasn't until mid-1979 that the VIA brand actually was implemented on the CP trains.  Plasma east 04:22, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: VIA takeover

message: Change of the route from CPR to mostly CNR was simply due to the fact the Federal government was paying for 100% of the losses of VIA Rail and Canadian National Railways. They did not want to pay money to the private shareholder-owned Canadian Pacific Railway. Under the old system, 80% of the losses were paid out. (Likely, the CPR in particular could cook the books sufficiently to get at least 100%) Furthermore, the CNR route ran through the Riding of many sitting MP's, moreso than CPR. The CPR was happy to get rid of the nusiance of passenger trains operating on their single-track mainline and made no complaint. R.L.Kennedy 20:48, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Route shift

message: What do we think of adding a reference to the Eric Wilson children's mystery novel Murder on the Canadian, set on the train? Mgriffin 03:54, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added it to my draft.  Should be published in <6hrs.  128.135.98.233 (talk) 00:48, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Popular culture

message: How much do tickets typically cost?  TastyCakes (talk) 19:22, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a pretty big range, depending on how far you're going, whether you're an adult/senior/student/child, what kind of seating/sleeping arrangements you've got, and what season it is. With a one way trip, it's significantly cheaper to take Amtrak's Empire Builder across the continent, though IMHO, not as pretty. - TheMightyQuill (talk) 20:45, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ticket prices

message: There is a newspaper of the same name.  69.157.229.153 (talk) 18:52, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Newspaper

message: From what I see on the VIA rail website, it is called "The Canadian". - TheMightyQuill (talk) 18:37, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: They're just using "the" for grammar: They say "the Ocean", but the train's name isn't "The Ocean". Same for the Canadian. — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 20:32, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not so sure. At the top of the page, below the banner, the text reads:
 Home > Trains > Rockies and Pacific > Toronto-Vancouver (the Canadian) 
The word "the" here serves no grammatical purpose, because it's not a sentence. - TheMightyQuill (talk) 20:40, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Then why isn't the "the" capitalized? See the page for the Ocean, it does read "Montréal-Halifax (the Ocean)", yet the name is not "The Ocean" — Train2104 (talk • contribs • count) 00:44, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  move back 

message: Is that train in the photo really westbound ?  The description of the photo doesn't actually say that.122.106.205.74 (talk) 10:46, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The description says "VIA #1", so that makes it westbound, the eastbound is train number 2. - David Biddulph (talk) 11:02, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  westbound 

message: I've dramatically reduced the number of images in this article. All the images are still available for use; those that weren't on WP:COMMONS already I moved there. I want to be clear that I think they're all great images, and I appreciate the time that went into (a) taking them, (b) uploading them, and (c) providing descriptions. I don't think it worked with the article though--we need a balance between images and text (see also WP:Galleries). I think we can work more of them in with an expanded route description (besides British Columbia) and perhaps a section on the Canadian's equipment. Mackensen (talk) 20:35, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image use 

message: On 26 November 2018, this article cited 
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This is just a friendly reminder to not use Train of the Week as a source.  The author has openly admitted that his posts are summaries of Wikipedia pages.  (For why that's problematic, see Circular reporting#Examples involving Wikipedia.)  128.135.98.233 (talk) 00:48, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Don't use this source!

message: An editor has removed the train's current westbound and eastbound schedules. There is no practical reason to remove this valuable resource. Saying that users may go to the company's site is placing an undue obstacle to this information. Not all users are adept at searching for the information. So, this editor has restored the links.  Westbound schedule
 Eastbound schedule  Dogru144 (talk) 00:06, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I am the editor that removed the schedules from the External Links section with my earlier edit. Its important to remember that Wikipedia is not a travel guide. WP:NOTTRAVEL Such information would be better suited for WikiVoyage. FFM784 (talk) 15:55, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Restoration of removed link to present schedule

message: The Sudbury Junction leg to Montreal was eliminated when the track to Pembroke was eliminated. Peter Horn User talk 23:26, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not quite accurate 

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thread_title:  A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion 

message: I've opened a discussion regarding recent changes to the Canadian's route map template at Template talk:VIA Canadian#Former routing. 162 etc. (talk) 17:07, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template discussion