We wanted you to name the provinces between Vancouver and Toronto... and calculate the distance of the trip.

Daryl Adair wrote the book on Canadian rail travel. It's called, surprisingly, The Canadian Rail Travel Guide. It's a mile-by-mile route description with maps of all the railroads north of the border. He says he's ridden them all...and he's got the answers we're looking for:

Adair: "Yes I have had the good fortune to travel that route. If you're travelling west from Toronto, the first day you travel through the Miscoka region which is the start of the Canadian shield with rock outcroppings and lakes and beautiful old-growth forests, as it seques into the Canadian prairies, where you get out into the rocks and the lakes and it just goes into the canola fields and grain fields of western Canada, and some beautiful rolling prairie landscape, overnight again and the next day you travel thru the foothills of Alberata, thru the awe inspiring Rocky Mountains, then wake up in the lower British Columbia mainland, and the Pacific coast of Vvancouver BC."

Or if you like, you can ride the rails in the opposite direction to end up in Toronto. In either case Adair's got the answers to our quiz:

Adair: "5 provinces British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba the 4th and Ontario the 5th and your journey was approximately 2755 miles."

At the journey's end, you arrive, probably a little weary, at a crowded Toronto train station.