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The Great Land Grab is an exhibit on the theft of over 8,000 square kilometres of land from the Indigenous inhabitants of Vancouver Island to build the E&N railway.

Quoting from numerous studies, Des & Benno demonstrate that rail freight is not economically feasible on Vancouver Island.

Des & Benno address some of the myths they have come upon in making their videos about the Island Corridor

An interview with Alastair Craighead, president of FORT-VI, and Denise Savoie, former city councillor and MP describing how the Galloping Goose was created

An interview with David Slade, vice-president of FORT-VI

Conversations with trail users on the 15th anniversary of the last passenger train.

Charlie Chaplin is hired to maintain the E&N corridor.

Benno and Des discuss options to replace the bridge over the tracks to Savory School.

March 19, 2011 is the day the trains stopped. The tracks were no longer safe, and they have continued to deteriorate.

Benno and Des discuss remediation of the corridor, how much might be needed, what it might cost, and what is “catastophism”.