Gord Downie, Rocket Richard among winning names for Transpo LRT cars

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There were some old favourites and some surprises in the list of names for the train cars on the city’s 40 Light Rail Transit system.

For one thing, there are no Ottawa Senators hockey players on the list but sainted Montreal Canadiens’ icon Rocket Richard will ride the rails on a Trillium Line car.

Former governor-general Lord Stanley, who donated the Stanley Cup to denote hockey supremacy, will be on a Confederation Line car long before the actual cup is won by the Senators.

And the late Gord Downie, former frontman of the Tragically Hip, will live on on his own Confederation Line car.

The Name the Trains contest was open to kids 16 years and under (although some of the winners, such as author Farley Mowat and former Supreme Court justice Bertha Wilson hint at some parental assistance.)

In a release, the city said the submissions reflected historical figures from Ottawa’s and Canada’s past, the arts, military history, as well as honour Indigenous people and culture.

The winners received certificates and two “golden tickets” each for the inaugural run on the Confederation Line when it opens later this year.

Here’s the complete list of winning names:

Trillium Line train cars

Nanuq • Polar Bear
Northern Lights
Rocket Richard
Dreamcatcher
Emily Murphy
Portage

Confederation Line train cars

Canada Goose
Farley Mowat
Gord Downie
Inuksuk
John McCrae
Logdriver • Draveur
Lord Stanley
Louis Riel
Majestic Moose
Odawa
Poppy
Snowbird
Bluenose
Boreal
Emily Carr
Jacques Cartier
Juno
Nathan Cirillo
Normandy
Samuel de Champlain
Thomas D’Arcy McGee
Totem
Tundra
Wagosh • Fox
Acadia
Agnes Macphail
Amik • Beaver
Bertha Wilson
Billy Bishop
Eh-Train
Henrietta Edwards
Maple Taffy
The Mountie
George Brown

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