Today at Ben Franklin Place the Name the Trains Contest winning submissions were announced and certificates were presented to Ottawa’s next generation of O-Train riders. The certificates were presented to children and youth who submitted the chosen names for the six O-Train Trillium Line train cars and the 34 O-Train Confederation Line train cars.
The young winners had the opportunity to meet OC Owl, talk with Electric Light Rail Operator Instructors, and were treated to a pizza party after the presentation ceremony. Each winner also received two golden tickets for the inaugural ride on the O-Train Confederation Line when it launches later this year.
The names were submitted through the Name the Trains Contest, which was open to children and youth 16 years of age and under. The contest ran from November 5 to December 8, 2017. The City received almost two thousand entries.
The names submitted reflect Ottawa’s and Canada’s historical figures, arts, our military history, as well as honour Indigenous peoples.
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
For more information on the O-Train Confederation Line, please visit OC Transpo’s Ready for Rail web section at octranspo.com/ready4rail.