Canada holiday prize attracts thousands

We stopped counting the envelopes when we got to 12,000 and several of the mailroom staff had to be taken away for a restorative cup of tea and a liedown.

Yes, thousands of Travel section readers entered our contest to win a holiday of a lifetime in Canada.

The prize, valued at $8300, includes two economy round-trip tickets with Canada 3000 from Auckland to Vancouver and return from Calgary.

And when Richard Pennick, the Canadian Tourism Commission's representative in Auckland, put his hands into the pile last week, he drew out this lucky winner:

Joanna Fulton,
Kerikeri,
Northland.

In addition she wins two Discover Holidays "Continental" packages featuring VIA Rail's Snow Train from Vancouver, through the Canadian Rockies to Jasper and down the Icefield Highway by motor coach to Banff - with time for skiing - and on to Calgary.