OTTAWA, CANADA — I had the chance to fly across North America for the total solar eclipse on Monday . But instead, I'm staying local.will streak across a small band of the United States and touch parts of Canada and Mexico as well. I'd known for years that this celestial was coming, and with the privilege of my job here considered a range of incredible locations: Austin, Texas, with its world-class art scene. Dayton, Ohio, with its unique National Museum of the Air Force.
But, like many other things in Canada, our trains came at a price. Yes, they linked our country on its western and eastern coasts when settlers in the 1880s needed it to ship goods and people. But more than 17,000 Chinese men worked on the western section of the transcontinental line alone, in harsh working conditions that killed an estimated 700, according toMy husband and I could have traveled internationally by train, admittedly: Some U.S.