Macleans
On to Ottawa Trek/Regina Riot
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on July 1, 2002. Partner content is not updated. Pulling down the bill of his hat, Jack Geddes squinted against the Prairie wind. Perched atop the boxcar of a moving train, Geddes could just make out the Alberta foothills. Beyond them, through the thick, black smoke belching from the steam engine, lay the snow-capped Rockies.