Layton, the former federal NDP leader, was a fan of "Star Trek." Chow, the mayor of Toronto, says her fandom began in the 1960s, when she was still living in Hong Kong. Chow arrived in Canada in 1970.

She remembers watching "Star Trek: The Original Series," then known simply as "Star Trek," every day after school, along with ...

one thousand relief camp strikers peacefully commandeered freight trains in British Columbia and began the "On to Ottawa Trek." Pictured here, strikers en route to Eastern Canada during march on ...

reaching Greenland just 21 days later - a journey of 1,512 km - before trudging forward on the second leg of her trek. She was tracked to Canada's Ellesmere Island, nearly 2,000 km further ...

The train rolled on and Emerson formed friendships with the other passengers, including a group of children who made peace ...