This may be one of the best ways to see the Great White North.

Rail travel in Canada has a special kind of calm built in. You sit down, the world starts sliding past the window, and suddenly your phone feels less important than a river bend or a far-off ridgeline ...

It has mountain views and glass-domed coaches.

The journey by train across Canada from Toronto in the east to Vancouver on the west coast is a wonderful way to see this vast and varied land, and if you can, do it on The Canadian, said Ruaridh ...