{"id":169,"date":"2010-03-19T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2010-03-19T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T16:13:00","slug":"famous-people-and-celebrities-onboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/famous-people-and-celebrities-onboard.html","title":{"rendered":"Famous People and Celebrities Onboard The Rocky Mountaineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rocky Mountaineer train is one of the most famous and spectacular train journeys in the world and as a result attracts famous people and celebrities. Below is a list of famous people and celebrities who have been on this spectacular rail journey (that we know of!).<\/p>\n<p>When you go on a <a href=\"http:\/\/rockymountainholidays.com\/rocky-mountaineer-holidays.html\">Rocky Mountaineer Holiday<\/a> &#8211; you never know who you may see!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 12px; \">\n<li><span>Peter Jennings, ABC News Anchor <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Sam Sullivan, Former Mayor of Vancouver<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Kevin Falcon, Minister of Transportation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Stephane Dion, Former Leader of the Liberal Party<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Joe Clark, Former Prime Minister of Canada<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>John Reynolds, MP\/MLA and Speaker of the House of Commons<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Chaim Herzog, Former Israeli President<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Molly Sugdeon, TV Actor &#8211; played the role of Mrs. Slocum on the British comedy &#8220;Are you being served?&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Carroll Spinney, TV Actor &#8211; played the role of Big Bird on \u201cSesame Street\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The great-great-grandson of Simon Fraser &#8211; he proposed to his fianc\u00e9e on the Fraser River between Lytton and Vancouver on the westbound leg of the journey in the dome car<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>The great-great-granddaughter of Billy Barker (Onboard in 2008)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Andrew Jergens, Inheritance magnate of Jergen Soap Products &#8211; one of the family members with him is the inventor of Crocs (shoes)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Dal Richards, Musician, Dal Richards Orchesta (Vancouver)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Carlo Rota, TV Actor, host of \u201cGreat Canadian Cooking Show\u201d and now starring on \u201cLittle Mosque on the Prairie\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Charlotte Gray, Host of CBC&#8217;s \u201cThe Greatest Canadian\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Morgan Freeman, Film Actor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Ken Dodd, British Comedian \u2013 he resembles a real life Austin Powers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Dr. Heimlich, Inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Thaksin Shinawata, Former Prime Minister of Thailand (Onboard in 2003)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Bill Gates, Founder of Microsoft \u2013 he bought out an entire RM GLS dome coach for him and his family and asked to stop the train for a photoutside. This was allowed for him, of course. (Onboard in 2003)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Patrick Stewart, TV Actor &#8211; Jean Luc Picard, \u201cStar Trek Next Generation\u201d (Onboard in 2006)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Hans Blix, Swedish Diplomat &#8211; served as the United Nations Chief Weapons Inspector (he was the one who told George Bush there were no weapons of mass destruction in <span>   <\/span>Iraq, although Bush invaded anyway). (Onboard in 2006)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Anna Faris, Film\/TV Actress &#8211; Scary Movie, Entourage, The House Bunny, etc. With a group of friends onboard RM winter train. (Onboard in 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>John Bishop, Chef of Bishops Restaurant in Vancouver, BC<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p  style=\" ;font-size:12px;\"> <strong><span><span class=\"gold\" style=\"color: rgb(138, 102, 17); \"><strong><span>The Whistler Mountaineer<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 12px; \">\n<li><span>Rajan Datar, Host of BBC TV \u201cFast Tracks\u201d &#8211; he is a very well known British Television personality with program aired internationally. (Onboard in 2006)<span> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Alan Thicke, TV\/Film Actor, \u201cGrowing Pains\u201d. (Onboard in 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>John Curly, Host of \u201cEvening Magazine\u201d (Seattle). (Onboard in 2007)<span> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Johanna Ward, Host of Shaw Cable&#8217;s \u201cThe Express\u201d. (Onboard in 2007)<span> <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Michael Eckford and Fiona Forbes, Hosts of Shaw Cable&#8217;s \u201cUrban Rush\u201d (Onboard in 2007)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>To obtain <a href=\"http:\/\/rockymountainholidays.com\/rocky-mountaineer-holidays.html#holiday_package_downloads\">Rocky Mountaineer prices<\/a> please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/rockymountainholidays.com\/\">Rocky Mountain Holidays<\/a> for a full list of downloadable PDF brochures.<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Frocky-peak.com%2Fblog%2F2010%2F03%2Ffamous-people-and-celebrities-onboard.html&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rocky Mountaineer train is one of the most famous and spectacular train journeys in the world and as a result attracts famous people and celebrities. Below is a list of famous people and celebrities who have been on this spectacular rail journey (that we know of!). When you go on a Rocky Mountaineer Holiday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/famous-people-and-celebrities-onboard.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Famous People and Celebrities Onboard The Rocky Mountaineer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,353,356,318,229,355,352,281,200,354],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocky-peak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}