Mayors of Montreal, Ottawa join Players on board enroute to
Federation of
Canadian Municipalities annual meeting
MONTREAL, May 31, 2017 /CNW/ - A special Fathers of
Confederation train celebrating Canada's 150th birthday and
Montreal's 375th
anniversary will depart from Montreal Wednesday afternoon with Montreal Mayor Denis
Coderre, Ottawa Mayor
Jim Watson, and other mayors
attending this week's annual general meeting of the Federation of
Canadian Municipalities in Ottawa.
The mayors will be joined on board the trip to Ottawa by the Confederation Players, a
Prince Edward Island-based troupe
of costumed, young, bilingual Canadian actors trained to reenact
the Fathers and Ladies of Confederation.
"We are bringing the Confederation Players to Ottawa as part of CN's Canada 150th and Montreal 375th celebrations," said
Sean Finn, executive vice-president
of corporate services at CN. "The railway helped unite our country
and to this day plays an important role in its prosperity. We are
proud to host the Confederation Players as we celebrate the great
history of Montreal and
Canada."
The train consisting of four historic passenger cars will depart
Montreal's Central Station and
travel through the city's neighbourhoods of Griffintown, Pointe
Ste. Charles, Ville St. Pierre and
Lachine, on to Dorval, Pointe
Claire, Beaconsfield,
Ile-Perrot and Pincourt in
Quebec, and Alexandria, Maxville, Casselman and Carlsbad Springs in Ontario before arriving in
Ottawa.
CN is a true backbone of the economy whose team of approximately
25,000 railroaders transports more than C$250 billion worth of goods annually for a wide
range of business sectors, ranging from resource products to
manufactured products to consumer goods, across a rail network of
approximately 20,000 route-miles spanning Canada and mid-America. CN – Canadian National
Railway Company, along with its operating railway subsidiaries –
serves the cities and ports of Vancouver, Prince
Rupert, B.C., Montreal,
Halifax, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala., and the metropolitan areas of
Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Chicago, Memphis, Detroit, Duluth,
Minn./Superior, Wis., and
Jackson, Miss., with connections
to all points in North America.
For more information about CN, visit the company's website at
www.cn.ca.
SOURCE CN