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Originally Posted by roger1818
Are you sure about that? While there might be some of those, I thought there were some isolated First Nation communities along the route. Don't forget that the station may not be "in the middle of town," but could be the closest way to get to civilization.
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I have taken that train between Winnipeg and Toronto probably about 15-20 times in each direction and I do not ever remember seeing or being made aware of any kind of First Nation community that relied on the train as its main means of access the same way that one might see in Northern Manitoba along the Winnipeg-Churchill route where that is definitely a thing. Lots of FN clientele in the NWO region but from what I could tell, mostly going between the towns along the line which all have road access. People going to/coming from places without roads were either campers or people with cottages.
I mean, I don't claim definitive knowledge of the line but I certainly did not see anything like that and I just did a google news search that did not pull up any results I could find regarding First Nations affected by the loss of VIA service in Northwestern Ontario.
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