This document describes a trip traveling across Canada by train from Vancouver to Halifax, then flying home. The 17-day trip includes train travel from Vancouver to Halifax with meals and accommodations on the train, plus hotels, transportation and attractions in various cities along the route. Pricing is provided for departures from Vancouver, Kamloops, Edmonton and Jasper, with the total cost ranging from $5395 to $6195 depending on departure location.

1. “OCEANTO OCEAN”OCEAN”
BYTRAIN-VANCOUVERTO HALIFAX- FLY HOME
Aug 19-Sept 4 (17 days) includes flights.
• Can board in Kamloops, Jasper
or Edmonton
• 5 nights, sleeping
accommodations and meals
on the train, stopovers in
Winnipeg,Toronto (Niagara
Falls), and Montreal
• 11 nights hotels, bus
transportation and attractions
all included.
• 6 nights in the Maritimes-
includes tour to P.E.I.
“A trip of a Lifetime”
Club Member’s Sleeper Class Pricing only
**All prices are for double occupancy
Sleepers limited
email: abdiamondstravelclub@gmail.com
**Non-members add $75 per person
(join for $25.00 and save)
(call for *Economy pricing-no bed or meals
on the train*)
Depart from Vancouver
$6195.00(includes 2 flights)
Depart from Kamloops
$5795.00(includes flight home)
Depart from Edmonton
$5395.00(includes flight home)
Depart from Jasper
$5595.00(bus transfer from G.P/flt)
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14 - Monday, May 02, 2016, CALGARY SENIOR
Viva Deneuve!
Matthew Hays
Deneuve, the
story went, was
never really that
keen on acting
in the first place.
But upon meet-
ing the legendary
French actress-
-arguably the
most famous ac-
tress to emanate
from a very rich
national film cul-
ture. "Yes, that's
true," she said in
2011, in Mon-
treal to receive a
lifetime achieve-
ment award at
the Montreal
World Film Fes-
tival.
"My sister was
an actress, and she
suggested to some
producers that I'd be
good for a role they'd
yet to fill. Even after
that, I wasn't sure I'd
go on being an actress.
I was still in school."
Lucky for the cinema,
Deneuve's career took
off. She met director
Jacques Demy, who
cast her in his 1964
film The Umbrellas of
Cherbourg, an all-sing-
ing musical film which
won hearts due in part
to the fact that it was
so very unusual.
Deneuve agrees that
for some beautiful ac-
tresses, the struggle to
be taken seriously is an
epic one. For her, key
parts in three pivotal
works of 60s cinema
meant she was seen as
a force to be reckoned
with early on. After
Umbrellas came Repul-
sion (1965), a sur-
real film in which she
worked with a then-un-
known director by the
name of Roman Po-
lanski. The film earned
her further praise, next
appearing in Bunuel's
Belle de Jour (1967),
in which she played
a sex worker with a
bad case of ennui. "I
was 18 when I met
Jacques Demy. I think
it's important to have
experiences like this
at such a young time
in your life. Then you
have more opportunity
to be critical about
what you do, and to
have better choices.
It never happens too
young. It's better that
way." Deneuve's career
has remained interest-
ing, precisely because
the early roles that
established her allowed
her to carry on while
obeying one basic rule:
never repeat yourself.
"Well, I should at
least have the impres-
sion I've never done it
before."
Indeed, Deneuve's
filmography is full of
strange, wonderful
risks. She worked with
Francois Truffaut,
most famously on The
Last Metro (1980),
his film about French
resistance fighters
during WWII. She ap-
peared in Tony Scott's
The Hunger (1983), a
vampire flick in which
she starred opposite
David Bowie and Su-
san Sarandon. And in
2000, she appeared in
Lars von Trier's musical
about the death penal-
ty, Dancer in the Dark.
"I survived," she said
of making that film,
which became famous
for the on-set conflicts
between von Trier and
the star, Bjork. De-
neuve recalled. "The
result was wonderful,
but she suffered." De-
neuve told me that not
everything you wish
for can become reality.
Truffaut introduced
her to Hitchcock, and
they discussed making
a film together. With
Hitchcock's notorious
penchant for beautiful
blondes, it would seem
a perfect fit. They met
in 1970, "and we were
considering a project
together. We wanted
to do something in
Europe. At that point
it was just a treat-
ment. It was not meant
to be. Sadly, he died
before we could get to
it." Deneuve had an
unmistakable French
trait: she was chain
smoking throughout
our entire meeting.
She told me stardom
and fame were entirely
different in France
than in America.
"When you're an actor
in France it's not the
same as in America.
You don't have to have
a bodyguard. Yes, the
cinema is important to
the people, but it's not
quite a religion. Some-
times the press refers
to you as a goddess,
or they use certain
words to describe you.
It really is best if you
don't believe your own
press."
COPYRIGHT: WILLI
SCHNEIDER/REX/
SHUTTERSTOCK
Special Athletes, Special Olympics
Gary Gee
For Findlay
Rudolph and
Neil Williams,
competing at
the 2016 Spe-
cial Olympics
Canada Win-
ter Games in
Corner Brook,
Newfoundland
was both an op-
portunity and a
challenge. The
two athletes are
the oldest mem-
bers of Alberta’s
five-man team,
which won the
silver medal at
the Games, held
March 1 to 5.
“One rock here
and there and
they could have
got the gold.
They did them-
selves proud,”
says their coach,
Dale Ellert.
Both Rudolph, 54, and
Williams, 44 and his
second, qualified pro-
vincially before being
selected to compete.
Named to the Alberta
team a few months
ago, Rudy says he was
a fan before he took
up curling 10 years
ago. “I like throw-
ing the rocks and the
strategy of it,” he says.
Other team members
include Jeff Riddell,
Matthew Winter and
Wade Watson. For
Neil Williams, it is not
only his first Games,
it was also his first
time on an airplane.
“I was scared, but
I got used to it,” he
says. The team was
put together after the
provincials in Grande
Prairie last year. “They
are considered our
highest level players,”
says Ellert. "You never
fail to learn something
from them. What you
come to appreciate
quickly is what you
see is what you get. If
they’re unhappy, they’ll
let you know. If you’re
their best buddy that
day, they’ll let you
know that, too. He
says instilling his ath-
letes with a sense of
team and fair play was
important. “We go
with the idea to have
a great Games experi-
ence and enjoy your
time there and play
well. That’s our focus.”