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A BOY WHO LOVES TRAINS

Nathan is a 13  year old boy from Toronto, Canada 
and he LOVES all trains
Especially CP Rail




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Pontypool's Jewish and Train Related Past

2/26/2017

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Hey guys. Near my ski resort we drove around and found old railroad tracks and we decided to look up some of the history of the place. It's called Pontypool and we discovered its train related past.
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More than a hundred years ago a man named Moishe bought 200 acres of land by a lake in Pontypool, Ontario. Jewish people back then were not allowed on the beaches in Toronto so they came up to Pontypool and begged Moishe to let them stay and swim in his lake. They didn't care if they had to sleep in his barn, they just wanted to get away from the city. Then after a couple of years of this Moishe bought 150 more acres of land and started building cottages on that land. When Moishe died his son took over and built more cottages and this was getting really popular, so passenger trains, on the CP tracks, took Jewish people to the resort and back - at least twice a day in the summers.
I thought this was cool and I wanted to share it with you. Until next time...  
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    Nathan is a 13 year-old boy who loves ALL trains. Especially freight trains. And especially CP Rail.
    This is a blog about  his journey to discover more about the trains he loves.

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