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TORONTO to JASPER: Part 2

In addition to just gazing at the scenery, Rail Canada provided two Canadian wine tastings and one for beer. Breakfast. Canadian beer tasting. A typical stop.  This at Saskatoon. Excellent pork chop dinner. There was a second Canadian wine tasting. Not much, but free.  There was also Bingo, and I won the first card.  A nice prime rib dinner. Thought we'd go up to domed car to watch the sunset. One of the marvels of technology are those freight car trains.  They are up to 2.5 miles long and consist of over 150 cars.  And there are longer ones.  I tried to take a video of one of them at this sunset videoing. A continuition.  To close, what do you know about  Canadian wine s ? I don't remember drinking a wine from this country ever, until this trip, although I've been through Canada maybe a dozen times in my life. Ontario and British Columbia produce two-thirds of Canadian wines, with Ontario responsible for 62% of them. Ice wine in particular has so...