For 12 days in September, 35 years ago this month, Canada was the epicentre for Catholics as the Polish pope set off on a cross-Canada tour from the cradle of Canadian Catholicism in Quebec City Sept. 9 and criss-crossed the country — stopping in Trois-Rivieres, Montreal, Toronto, St. John’s, NL, Moncton, Halifax, Midland, Ont., Winnipeg and St. Boniface, Man., Edmonton, Vancouver and an unscheduled stop in Yellowknife — before departing from the nation’s capital on Sept. 20.
Source: History in the making: JP II visits Canada 35 years ago