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Janis Joplin on the Festival Express tour The film-makers found reels of footage from the Monterey and Woodstock festivals, as well as the trans-Canadian Festival Express tour with the Grateful Dead and the Band.

From The Guardian • Nov. 21, 2015

Seventy-seven-year-old Jim Walpole of Defiance fell Thursday in Toronto while on a trans-Canadian trip.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 10, 2013

It was 1881 when he took over construction of the trans-Canadian railway, a project that consumed several fortunes, 4 1/2 years of agonizing labor and an untold number of lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a crisply argued paper in Science in 1964, Haynes drew attention to the correlation between the birth of “an ice-free, trans-Canadian corridor” and the “abrupt appearance of Clovis artifacts some 700 years later.”

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Thus, by taking the upper Great Lakes and the West, it divides the trans-Canadian waters with the Canada Steamship Lines, which latter take the lower Great Lakes and the East.

From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by Wood, William Charles Henry