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What in the HECK happened with Scotsman, Dominion, and Dwight during the Great Gathering?!

(Also, since Dutchess of Hamilton has also been to the US during the 1939 NY World’s Fair, did she get involved?)

Warning - extremely long post below

So, first of all, Duchess of Hamilton never went back to the UK.

Duchess of Hamilton (6229) and Coronation (6220) had their nameplates swapped by the LMS when an engine was sent over to the US. 6229, in the guise of 6220, went to the US.

Streamlined locomotives were all the rage at the time, and railroads practically fell over themselves to get Coronation (as she was now known) onto press trains. The B&O railroad in particular was so impressed with her capabilities that they extended a formal offer of employment to her for service on their streamlined Royal Blue service. The LMS were surprised to get an offer to "purchase" their locomotive, but accepted nonetheless, as it meant a welcome infusion of cash in the dark days during the beginning of WWII.

Coronation fit right in with the Americans, having only been about a year old when she was sent to New York. Following the end of steam traction on the Royal Blue in the late 40s, (the B&O were early adopters of diesels.) she and her B&O coworkers found good employment on the New York Central, where she still runs to this day.

Since then, she's fully "gone native", marrying a J3 Hudson, (yes one of the streamlined ones) adopting both an American accent and three children, and being fully repainted to NYC silver by 1956. Flying Scotsman met her in Albany in 1970, and neither one of them recognized the other.

Actually, most UK expats don't recognize her, to the point where a common interaction is for her to be held up as an example of "look at her, she's integrated well into the US", only for the British engines to say "that's preposterous, she isn't English".

When it's pointed out that she's still obviously an LMS Coronation, the next response is usually screaming.

All that being said, she has no interest to come back to the United Kingdom, and wasn’t asked by the NRM anyways.

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Second of all, the Great Gathering was... an event.

So, there are (officially) 6 preserved Gresley A4s.

Mallard - static, National Railway Museum (UK). Also an asshole.

Bittern - running, private owner, UK based

Sir Nigel Gresley - running, owned by a trust, UK based

Union of South Africa - running, private owner, UK based

Dwight D. Eisenhower - static (officially), National Railway Museum (USA)

Dominion of Canada - static (officially), Exporail (Montréal)

This is the official list, and for the first 4 engines, it's the truth.

However, things are a bit hazier on the other side of the Atlantic...

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So the thing that needs to be made clear right up front that in a sentient vehicle world, museums aren't like the NRM, where locomotives sit static for years on end, although obviously the English have museums like that because of course they do.

Rail museums in the rest of the world are much more like Colonial Williamsburg - a living history center staffed by volunteers who act out a prototypical setting from [insert decade here].

British Rail, being British Rail, didn’t know that and didn’t care.

4496, Dwight D. Eisenhower, having been named after the General-turned-President, had been earmarked for preservation by BR, and was summarily shipped off to the US National Railway Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

In an entirely unintentional move, this donation MONUMENTALLY snubbed the Smithsonian, who refused to have any dealings with BR for decades, even for archival purposes. This, combined with the fallout from Operation Smash Hit, and the fact that the Smithsonian is Petty AF, meant that there was virtually no official trans-Atlantic cooperation between British and US museums for decades.

Dwight hit the shores of the US in 1964 New York City and was greeted by a marching band, a ticker-tape parade, and Presidents Johnson and Eisenhower, who were on-hand to personally make the engine a US citizen.

Always keen to curry favor with the government, the Southern Pacific railroad had a job offer waiting for Dwight right alongside the Presidents and the parade, and when he accepted, he went off to Sunny Southern California - someplace so opposed to Britain the he fell in love with the place immediately and refused to leave!

The ladies may have also had something to do with it as well - while most engine classes fell into a typical 50-50 gender distribution, the SP GS-4 class was all female...

[Pictured above - one of 28 very good reasons to live in California if you're a single British steam engine.]

Dwight does not kiss and tell, but at his wedding in 1974, all 28 GS-4s showed up - and he was only marrying one of them!

Since the 70's, he's become a mainstay in California, having been repainted into Daylight Limited colors in 1969, and retiring from railroad duties in 1999. After that, he went into the movie business, and is currently the head of digital media development at Disney.

His wife Irene (SP 4437) is also an interesting figure as well - following in the wheelmarks of the great female locomotives before her, she had an eye for business and a Stanford education before she married her husband, and was an initial investor in multiple tech companies in Silicon Valley during the 70's and 80's, but stopped doing that after her investment in Apple proved very lucrative. In 1996, she was convinced by a few people in the Stanford Alumni association to invest in another tech startup, this one an "internet search engine" called Google.

So yeah, Dwight Eisenhower kept falling up and up and up all his life, and is now married to the richest woman in the world.

4489 Dominion of Canada was donated mostly by accident, having been forgotten in the back of Darlington sheds until 1966, when she was shipped off to the Canadian Railway Historical Society in Montreal.

As stated elsewhere, the Canadian Government considered any locomotive built in the UK to have UK citizenship, and therefore treated them as commonwealth citizens under existing Canadian law. (remember that Canada was still a colony at that time)

CN, the national rail carrier, was obligated to offer her a job under their charter, and she accepted, moving to Toronto to run intercity trains between Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.

Within two years she was displaced from those duties by the introduction of a new, shiny, jet turbine powered train, and was summarily demoted to local commuter runs in the Toronto suburbs.

Moving to suburbia did one thing more than anything else - expose her to the people who live there. They all had complaints, they all had problems, and they all had no idea on how to fix them.

Being a helpful sort, Dominion decided that she could help, and promptly ran for Toronto city council in 1974. She won, and has been a fixture in local Toronto politics ever since - she even got to be Chairwoman of Metro Toronto (the closest thing to being mayor because Toronto's governmental structure is weird) until 1998, when Toronto was merged with the surrounding area to create a massive new region.

Having then done everything there is to do in municipal Toronto government, Dominion went on to become the Chief Executive Officer of Metrolinx, the agency that controls almost all of the transit agencies in Ontario, because, as she puts it, "I'm still a commuter engine at heart".

She's now painted in the current GO Transit paint scheme, and still does commuter runs- which is really weird looking now that there are double deck commuter coaches in a push-pull configuration, with a Gresley A4 doing the pushing.

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Now, I mentioned that those 6 were the only ones officially preserved - there were two unofficial preservations as well...

4486 Merlin was properly Shanghied - he was yanked off the docks in Southhampton by a cargo ship in August of 1965, and was spirited away to parts unknown.

Those unknown parts turned out to be South Korea. There, he was given citizenship by the US-aligned military dictatorship (Korean history is wild) and was employed by the State-run rail operator.

As the military government began a hardcore plan to increase their country's wealth and industrial output, rail lines were being built across the country, and Merlin was soon awarded a position on the fastest train in the network, the Seoul-Busan Saemaeul-ho.

Because of his experience in running high-speed express trains, Merlin not only became the public face of Korean high-speed rail, but also became an "honored elder" amongst the other Korean engines, a position he still holds to this day - as despite being over 70 years old, he still runs daily trains on the fast services, easily keeping time with the Korean schedules as well as training the new high speed trains, including the KTX sets. He's on his 24th boiler by now, and has more parts from Hyundai than Doncaster.

An additional fact - Merlin actually has had a linguistic effect on Korean railroading, as his strange amalgamation of an accent - a strong Yorkshire accent that tried to be Received Pronunciation for 30 years, mixed with almost 50 years of middle-to-upper-class Korean - has filtered down through the ranks of KoRail, because all of his students want to sound like him out of respect. Human British expats in Korea will occasionally hear a locomotive speaking in English, and the engine will sound like a Yorkshireman every time and the Brits cannot handle it.

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4495 Golden Fleece is the only A4 to preserve himself - he saw the writing on the wall in the early 60s, and hopped a car ferry to France at the end of 1962. From there, he bounced around Europe for a bit before making it to the United States in the late 70's.

Of the 8 surviving A4s, he's probably led the quietest life of all - he moved to Miami before it got nice, and basically got in on the ground floor of CSX when that merger happened in 1980. He's now the head of terminal operations for the Port of Miami, but he's generally kept a low profile - not even having a chance to meet Scotsman due to his time in Europe.

He's still in contact with Dwight and Dominion, and has no real bitterness over not being "famous" like they are - he likes the quiet, and still lives in a modest house in Boynton Beach with his long-term girlfriend.

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Soooo... the Great Gathering.

It was supposed to be a meeting of the 6 surviving A4s - a two year event held at the NRM in honor of the 75th anniversary of Mallard's record-setting run.

"Record setting" is a past-tense term here. While there have been no official runs, every single one of the Pennsylvania Railroad's T1 and S1 locomotives claim to have gone faster than 126 without meaning to, and numerous other locomotives on unofficial attempts done late at night on flat stretches of land across the country have hit 130+.

British Expats have also done better than 126 - Coronation claims to have hit at least 140 on a midnight mail train in 1980, and in Korea, Merlin claims to have hit 128 on a test train, although that was judged by timing mile markers as his speedometer wasn't functioning properly.

Problems arose before any of the engines had even reached the NRM, as Mallard's already sizeable ego had swelled to massive proportions, and several engines in the great hall were planning a justifiable homicide.

Then came the time restraints - none of the foreign locomotives were willing to uproot their lives and jobs for two years just to sit motionless in a shed. A two year exhibition was eventually negotiated down to a 6 month gala, much to the irritation and confusion of the NRM, who could not understand that the engines were still in service.

Then came the extra engines - Dwight and Dominion thought that the NRM knew about Fleece, and were quite insulted on his behalf when he wasn't invited - they threatened to not attend unless arrangements were made for Fleece to attend as well.

An utterly baffled NRM agreed, but also tore their record archives apart, as they knew that Fleece had been scrapped. The fact that his picture was plastered all over CSX's Florida Division website was all the more confusing as a result.

Meanwhile in Busan, nobody knew that Merlin had escaped the scrappers' torch and therefore did not invite him. He was only informed after K-Pop star Psy texted him from London to ask if he knew about the event, which was being advertised on television.

Merlin, having missed his friends from the LNER, decided that he would just crash the party, used some of his many vacation days, and took off for England on a cargo ship.

By sheer coincidence, all four foreign A4s hit the dock in Southhampton on the same day, and were delighted to see each other - especially Merlin, considering that everyone else had thought he'd died.

Meanwhile at the NRM, delight was not the word one would use. Befuddled, confused, shocked even, but not delighted. Their plans had revolved around 6 A4s, most of which wouldn’t be running - only to now discover that there were 7, all but one of which were functioning! (Mallard, the star of the show, was the odd one out, and it drove him crazy)

Then they got a phone call from their man at the docks saying that another one had showed up, looking like he’d driven out of a K-pop album cover, and they just gave up and started screaming.

Screaming is also what happened when the cavalcade of foreigners showed up in York - first of all, the quartet of new engines sounded nothing like they had when they left England.

Dwight had willfully unlearned his Upper Crust British accent by 1971, and had fallen deep into a California accent (quite similar to what Scotsman sounds like - coincidence? No.)

Dominion and Fleece hadn’t tried to unlearn their accents, but 40+ years of living in North America can really dilute the Britishness. It doesn’t help that Dominion has developed most Canadian vocal tics eh?

As stated above, Merlin has a weird fuckin accent, and now he speaks English with a strong Yorkshire accent, but will occasionally and without warning drop into a Korean/Yorkshire hybrid accent.

The screaming also happened because the NRM had wanted to repaint the duo trio! quartet?! into LNER garter blue, and were promptly informed that “we’re painted like this for work! Don’t touch it!” (the sole exception was Dwight, who hadn’t pulled a real train in 14 years, but he liked his Daylight Limited paint), so instead of the new arrivals showing up in LNER colours, they showed up looking like THIS:

Having their long-lost siblings show up looking and sounding like THAT had quite an affect on the A4s and the other NRM engines:

Bittern could not believe her eyes - to the point where she actually began making noise about seeing an optometrist

Union of South Africa almost backed through a wall

Sir Nigel Gresley was speechless for two days

Mallard was so angry that he actually chipped a tooth during one of his rants about “the impropriety of it all!!”

Evening Star laughed so hard that he managed to derail himself without moving

City of Truro almost cracked a piston from shock

Alycidon spent the entire gala coming up with more and more laser focused jabs at Mallard - who was so easy to fluster that the Deltic needn’t have bothered

Oliver Cromwell and Green Arrow made fast friends with the new arrivals, and spent the entire time learning ‘Americanisms’ to annoy the other engines with.

But what about Flying Scotsman? Where was he in all of this? He was generally considered to be the “leader” of the NRM fleet (much to Mallard’s annoyance), and was usually who the other engines turned to when things started getting out of control.

Did Scotsman calm things down? Like hell he did. The inmates were running the asylum from the moment that Scotsman saw the other A4s - more importantly saw Dwight - and immediately greeted them in flawless Californian.

This actually set off the building’s security alarm, as Flying Scotsman saying “DUDES! Wassup?!” caused such an uproar that the noise broke several exterior windows.

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And all of this was in the first few days - there were six months left to go.

There was one railtour attempt. It was supposed to feature Bittern and Sir Nigel running in tandem, but instead featured Dwight and Merlin, mainly because Bittern wanted to see what would happen.

They exceeded the max speed limit for steam traction within 15 minutes, sparked a thorough investigation by the RAIB, and got all future steam powered railtours for the Gathering cancelled immediately.

On the plus side, the two engines did prove that it was still possible for a steam train to hit 100 safely.

One thing that baffled the other engines was the inordinately large number of people who turned up just to see Dominion, and the one person who kept turning up to see Fleece - it took a lot of explaining for them to understand that Dominion had been married three times, and had children (adopted) and grandchildren from all three marriages coming to see her. A similar amount of explaining was required to explain that Fleece’s girlfriend/partner wanted to see him too.

The normally chatty Dwight and Scotsman would suddenly clam up whenever Dominion and Fleece teasingly tried to ask about their love lives, something which wasn’t unnoticed by the other engines, but got similarly nowhere.

The answer to why they both shut the hell up was explained when a lot of shouting broke out in the yard of the NRM one day about a month into the exhibition:

Irene Eisenhower, not content to sit in California and count her billions, quickly grew bored without her husband, and decided to go to England and be with him. The fact that she definitely did not fit the UK loading gauge was never even a consideration, and so she just showed up in York on the back of a lorry, having informed no-one of her arrival, and content to just pay off the requisite people if a fuss occurred.

A fuss did occur, and it was only ended when Scotsman managed to convince the museum’s curator (who at this point in his life was regretting ever thinking of this damned gathering) that Irene was a ‘temporary donation’ to the museum.

[Scotsman, who definitely hid his Cali accent from museum staff the entire time, has one of the best poker faces in the world]

Dwight was overjoyed, and so was Scotsman, for initially unclear reasons. Then Irene managed to grab both her husband and Scotsman, dragged them behind a shed, and [THIS IS A PG13 HEADCANON] the both of [PG13]. Turns out that while Scotsman may have slept his way across the US a few times, he was actually ready to settle down with Dwight and Irene - they were a throuple way back in the 70s, and those passions haven’t faded. When Scotsman reluctantly left the US in 74, a lot of the reluctance was because of those two.

This bombshell of a revelation went over interestingly at the NRM. Some engines (Green Arrow) were happy for them, some were incensed (Mallard - although it was for anti-American reasons, not homophobic ones), and some were intensely curious about what was going on in the outside world (Bittern).

The ‘foreigners’ (as Mallard had taken to calling them), were deeply displeased at how their fellow engines were being treated - while a lot of them were ‘in steam’, some were not and might never be again, something they found abhorrent. Unable to do anything at that time, as the NRM was not a for-profit entity and therefore did not have anyone to bribe, (Irene’s solution to things is to throw money at the situation) the engines started talking about how life was different in the outside world - namely that engines were still working hard, even when they were over a century old and running on steam power.

This was of great interest to engines like Evening Star and (6220) Duchess of Hamilton, neither of whom were likely to be steamed again, and Bittern, who was growing more and more curious with each passing day. Dissent began to slowly build against the NRM curators, and the culture of the United Kingdom in general.

One thing the foreigners did try do something about was Ellerman Lines. The poor bastard had been sectioned to show his inner workings, much to the jaw-dropped horror of the foreign A4s, who made such a stink about it that he was moved outside the museum by NRM staff, who must have thought that the engines lacked object permanence or something, because that didn’t make it better!

Irene Eisenhower, who was beginning to get really sick of the nonsense that the NRM called preservation, (Scotsman was not in running condition, and had been hastily reassembled mid-overhaul in order to be cosmetically ready for the event, and let’s not forget poor Ellerman Lines) elected to bring the event to a close on her own after only three months. She did this by eventually putting her immense wealth to good use, and called for a haulage service to rescue the engines from the NRM without the knowledge of the museum staff. Aside from the A4s, she also took Ellerman Lines, Scotsman, and Bittern (who had asked to go) with her, and only bothered to inform Ellerman and Bittern - she was not about risk Scotsman having another “think of England” moment and staying.

The haulage firm was efficient and the cargo ship was waiting, so the engines were in international waters before the NRM opened the next morning.

Much swearing occurred in England that day, and the NRM’s image has yet to fully recover from the PR story that they had sold Flying Scotsman (and Ellerman Lines) to a reclusive American billionaire.

Privately though, the NRM does not care, as that story is a lot better than “Someone stole our engines and we’re not allowed to get them back because as it turns out we’re slaveowners, so no international court will help us.”

Also, despite their multimillion dollar “donation" from the I. Eisenhower Opportunity Fund, they still haven’t been able to fully pacify their engines, all of whom have somehow gotten the idea that they should be running in main line service like they live on Sodor or something...

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Dwight, Scotsman, and Irene all live happily together in the sprawling Eisenhower estate in Malibu. Irene is currently lobbying the California state government to legalize polygamy, with moderate success.

Ellerman Lines, after a lot of therapy and a full rebuild, is now working on a short line in Wyoming. He likes the scenery.

Bittern followed Dwight, Irene, and Scotsman to Los Angeles, and used her ‘connections’ (Dwight) to get a supporting role in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Since then, she’s gotten several roles based on her own merits, including an Emmy nomination for Best Guest Appearance in a Comedy.

Merlin spent a few months in LA before he went back to Korea. He is very thankful that he was able to reconnect with his brothers and sisters, and that his homeland has good internet, as he video calls his family across the Pacific almost every day.

Golden Fleece still lives a quiet life in Florida, but finally decided to tie the knot, and married his girlfriend in 2017. The ceremony was supposed to be quiet, but Irene Eisenhower has no idea what that word means.

Dominion of Canada continues to baffle non-local trainspotters when she runs commuter trains into Toronto. She is now a great-grandmother.

7 years later, and the term “Great Gathering” is still a forbidden phrase in the back rooms of the NRM.

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dreamofawonderfullife · 6 years ago

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Timeline - Post Sochi So Far…

I just repost timeline of @balletfever89-deactivated201902

********************** 2014 ********************

February

(Feb. 24) — Moscow Gala

March

(March 3) —RBC press conference as well

(March 3 ) — RBC Learn to Skate Event (w/ PChiddy and kids)

(March 4 ) — Co hosted Morning Show — Breakfast Television interview

(March 4) — CP24 Interview with Stephanie

(March 8) —Hockey Game (Leafs) w/ fellow Olympians

(March 12) — Taping Strombo

(March 12? around this time) —Visited a Skating Club

(March 13) — ET Canada

(March 14) —Off the Record

(March 14) — KISS 92.5

(March 20) —Hockey Game Senators

(March 22) —Women’s Lifestyle

April

(April 5) – Tessa and Scott celebrate medals at his grandparents’ house and attend a Detroit Wings game (Sheri Cara Charlie Sheri’s bf)

** Stars on Ice Japan Tour** (April 11 - 20) but they were there earlier

** Stars on Ice Canada Tour ** (April 25th - May 15th)

May

(May 16) PWC event on Tessa’s birthday—Scott attends Hockey game (drama)

(May 21st) —Puck Drop — London Knights game

(May 22) —50 Most beautiful Gala (Tessa)

(May 22) —Heroes’ Hockey Challenge in Edmonton (Scott)

(May 25) —Toronto Blue Jays game ( first pitch)

(May 27th) — Office warming (apparently they were guest speakers)

(May 29)—Quebec SC (ACGM) event — Scott stayed for a couple more days after

June

(June 2) —Post Olympic Excellence Series (just Scott)

(June 4)—Conference / BBQ/ Parliament / St. Gregory Catholic School in Ottawa

(June 6)—Champions Parade in Calgary - Gala + Twitter takeover

**********VACATION BREAK*************************************************

—Scott spotted at hospital (twitter)

(June 23)—Mark Lowry Memorial Drive for the Podium Gold Tournament (Scott with Patrick) —- FIRST OFFICIAL SCOTT APPEARANCE

—Scott attends wedding

July

(July 5) — Tessa and Scott attend Calgary Stampede — FIRST OFFICIAL TESSA APPEARANCE

(July 11) — Tessa’s FIRST tweet *******

(July 12) — FC London Soccer Game (just Tessa)

(July 13) — Virtue & Moir 2nd Annual Golf Classic

(July 15-16) — Skating Seminar (Scott and Tessa)

**Artistry on Ice China Tour** : Beijing 7/25—Shanghai 7/27 —Guangzhou 8/1—Taipei 8/3

August

(August 5) — Lucan Skating Club in ilderton (just Scott)

(August 6) — Rogers Cup in Toronto #Lindt (Scott and Tessa)

(August 8) — John Legend Concert in Toronto (just Tessa)

(August 10) — Rogers Cup Men’s Final (Tessa and Mom) - Prairie Jam festival in Winnipeg (just Scott w/ KLawes)

(August 12) — Tessa Virtue ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (Instagram Video)

(August 13) — Scott’s FIRST tweet ******* and responds to Tessa’s Ice Bucket Challenge (Instagram) in Ilderton

(August 16) — Tessa attends Jeffrey Buttle’s Wedding (Toronto) along with Katelyn and Joannie :)..and Scott??

(August 18) — CP Women’s Golf Open — Tessa and Mr. Moir as “caddie” extraordinaire ;)

(August 19) — Scott and Tessa spotted in Saskatoon

(August 20) — Mike Babcock Fore Prostrate Golf event (Scott and Tessa)

(August 23) — Tessa attends a Bachelorette party while Scott is spotted with Patrick golfing.

(Aug. 28 - Sept. 1-2) — Tessa vacations in Alberta, Canada while Scott is spotted in Niagara with KLawes

September

(September 2) SCOTT’s 27th BIRTHDAY!!!

(September 3 -4) — Tessa attends TIFF along with Ryan Semple and Elisha Cuthbert

(September 4) — Scott attends Skate Canada High performance camp and Tessa attends Wicked performance in Toronto

(September 5) — Tessa attends Skate Canada High performance camp (with Scott??) and then has a girls’ night with Elisha Cuthbert

(September 6) — Scott and Tessa spotted at a wedding in Toronto

(September 8) — Tessa “back to school” tweet

(September 9) — Tessa attends Bill Volk Golf tournament (right to play)

(September 11) — Tessa attends Lorde concert at Folkfest in Ottawa (with Ryan Semple)

(September 17) — Tessa and Scott film CanSkate video for Skate Canada in London, Ontario sportscenter

(September 22-23) — Radio interviews (Scott & Tessa ) announcing their plans for the 2014-15 season

(September 26) — Tessa attends Yoga class

(September 26-28) — Scott attends Ilderton Fall Fair

October

(October 1) — Scott and Tessa — attend TWIINS event concussion research — Toronto Rehab Center

(October 3) — Tessa attends LetsBond event in Montreal

(October 6) — Scott — 2nd Annual Evening of Great Canadian Conversations

(October 10) — Tessa — photo shoot Real Style fashion

(October 15) — Scott TWEETS AGAIN!!! :DDDDD

(October 16) — Scott — Celebrity Men’s Fashion Show

(October 17) — Scott and Tessa — Tanger Outlets Opening — Ottawa, Ontario

(October 22) — Tessa — Fashion Blows (Toronto)

(October 27) — Scott and Tessa — IVEY business school speech

(October 30) — Scott and Tessa — Gold Medal Plates Dinner (Victoria) they are the MCs for the event

(October 31 - Nov 2) — Scott and Tessa — Skate Canada 2014 (commentators)

November

(November 8) — Scott and Tessa — Tanger Outlets Opening — Cookstown,Ontario

(November 12) Scott and Tessa — Gold Medal Plates Dinner (Toronto) they are the MCs for the event

(November 15) — Scott and Tessa — TEDxYouth talk

(November 17) — Scott and Tessa — Gold Medal Plates Dinner (Ottawa)

(November 18-21) — Scott and Tessa — Training with Sam (Montreal)

(November 21) — Scott and Tessa — LIMITLESS2014 Gala (Toronto)

(November 24) — Scott and Tessa — Acura West photo shoot (London)

(November 25) — Scott and Tessa —IIderton Skating club (morning) + Raonic Race for Kids (evening - Toronto)

December

(December 5 & 7) — *** Holiday on Ice Festival ***

(December 8 — 9) — Scott & Tessa in Montreal (with Marie France and Patrice) and friends

(December 17 - 19) — Scott & Tessa — Training with Sean Chessman for Art on Ice (Calgary, Alberta)

(December 28) — Scott & Tessa — Ilderton Skating Club (practice)

(Dec 30 - Jan 2) — Tessa spotted in Vancouver for New Years

********************** 2015 ********************

January

(January 3) — Scott & Tessa — Ilderton Skating Club (practice)

(January 4) — Scott & Tessa - *late night* Ilderton Skating Club (practice)

(January 10 - 18) — SOI Japan

(January 22 - 23) —- Scott & Tessa — Cdn. Nationals (Kingston, ON)

(January 24) — Scott is groomsman at wedding

(January 27) — Scott & Tessa — FFWD Advertising Week (Toronto)

(January 30) — Skate Niagara Ice Show

February

(February 1 - 14) — Art On Ice

(February 19) – Tessa at beach and Scott at Scotties

(February 25) – Tessa in Toronto

(Feb 26-March 6) – Tessa in L.A. for SOI costume fitting

March

(March 8) – Tessa attends Western University Rowing Gala as a guest speaker

(March 11) – Scott visits special olympics athletes :)

(March 18) – Scott and Tessa (separate cities) radio interview with 570 News

(March 18-22) – Scott attends the curling Worlds Championships (Sapporo, Japan)

(March 20) – Tessa spotted with her girlies at her friend’s chalet (Ontario)

(March 23) – Tessa attends Pink Tartan Fashion Show (Toronto)

(March 24) – Tessa in a photo shoot (Toronto)

(March 25) — OWL Dinner in Waterloo (keynote speech for the Lauriel Golden Hawks)

(March 26) – Tessa attends Hilary McMilan Fashion Show with Elisha Cuthbert and sister (Toronto)

(March 28) – Scott attends heroes hockey game with Kaitlyn and Tessa attends fashion show (Toronto)

April

(April 7-8) – Tessa in Ottawa // Scott seen with KLawes in St. Marys

(April 9) – Tessa & Scott rink practice

(sometime in this month of April) – Tessa skates at Canadian Ice Academy (Missisauga, Ontario)

(April 18) — Silver Blades Skating Club Ice Show (Corner Brook, NL)

(April 19) — Sparkling Blades Skating Club Ice Skating Gala (Windsor)

(April 21-25) — Stars on Ice cast train (Minden Hills)

May

(May 1 — May 21) — SOI Canada : Halifax / Ottawa / Montreal / Toronto / Hamilton / London / Winnipeg / Regina / Edmonton / Calgary / Victoria / Vancouver

********** (May 6) – MANIFESTO SPORT announces Tessa ************

(May 17) – Tessa’s 26th Birthday

(May 20) – Lindt Master Class (Richmond, B.C.)

(May 25) – Tessa attends a close friend’s wedding :)

(May 30) – Tessa on shopping network (Hillberg and Berk)

June

(June 1) – Tessa photo shoot for H&B (Toronto)

(June 8 - 22) — Scott and Tessa — Gold Medal Plates — Scotland Trip

(June 23 - July 3 ) – Tessa vacations with family (London, England)

July

(July 7) – Lindt Master Class (London, ON)

(July 9) – Lindt Master Class (Toronto, ON)

(July 11) – Scott at Lucan Memorial Golf Tournament (Hamilton)

(July 14) – Lindt Master Class (Halifax, N.S.)

(July 15) – Lindt Master Class (Ottawa, ON)

(July 17) – Scott attends Team Jacobs Charity Golf Event (Sault St. Marie)

(July 20) –Tessa hangs out during PanAm games (Toronto)

(July 21) – Tessa and Scott attend at beach volleyball game PanAm (Toronto)

(July 23) – Lindt Master Class (Edmonton, AB)

(July 24) – Tessa and Scott – Mike Babcock One Voice Fundraiser Dinner and Dance (Saskatoon)

(July 31) – Ice Show (Beijing, China) (went to see Wall of China)

August

(August 16) – Tessa attends Rogers Cup in Toronto

(August 21 - September 7) – CNE Skating Show

(August 22) – Tessa and Scott – CP24 Breakfast Interview

(August 24) – Tessa and Scott (Ms Miku and Kaitlyn) – Soul in the City (Casa Loma, Toronto)

(August 25) – Tessa and Scott – dinner with Mike Babcock

(August 26) – Scott attends Chris Mabee’s bday celebration with Kaitlyn

(August 28) – Tessa and Scott – attend a Blue Jays game

(August 29) – Tessa and Scott – Spirit of the West concert (Jackson Triggs Winery, Niagara)

(August 31) – Scott spotted at Blue Jays game

September

(September 1) – Scott spotted at Blue Jays game and Tessa celebrates Jeff’s birthday

(September 2) – Scott’s 28th Birthday

(September 4) – Tessa attends Zac Brown Band concert

///Sept. 7th//// END OF CNE

(Sept. 9) – Tessa attends TIFF Soiree (Toronto)

(September 13) – Virtue & Moir 3rd Annual Golf Classic

(September 15) – Tessa attends Bill Volk Celebration Golf Classic (Caledon Village, Ontario)

(September 16/17/18) – Tessa takes over H&B Instagram takeover

(September 18) – Tessa SnapChat takeover for Hillberg and Berk and LIVE on the Shopping Channel (Toronto)

(September 19) – Scott attends family wedding (Ilderton, Ontario)

(September 21) – Tessa and Scott – Lindt Masters Golf tournament (Halton Hills, Ontario)

October

(October 2) – Scott attends Ilderton Fall Fair (judges an event?)

(October 6) – Scott spotted at Starbucks (London, Ontario) - TV x HB breakfast “sneak peek” (Distillery District, Toronto) - Tessa attends Madonna concert

(October 7) – Tessa and Scott spotted in Toronto and attend the Maple Leafs’ first game of the season (Toronto, Ontario) (+) flashmob

(October 8) – Tessa and Scott spotted at Blue Jays game (Toronto, Ontario)

(October 9) – Tessa says that her and Scott also took part in a flash mob this week (she posted on the 10th a sneak peek of a collab project with The Hair Gypsy and Medulla Co. which she worked on the 9th)

(October 11 - 12) celebrating Thanksgiving

(October 14) – TV x HB Launch at Cornwall Center (Regina, Saskatoon)

(October 15) – Scott night out at bar (London, Ontario)

(October 16) – TV x HB Launch at Kingsway Mall with meet and greet (Edmonton, Alberta)

(October 17) – TV x HB Launch (skating & meet and greet) at West Edmonton Mall (Edmonton, Alberta)

(October 19) – Tessa and Scott with Sam Chouinard in the dance studio (Montreal, Quebec)

(October 20) – Tessa and Scott with Sam Chouinard in ice rink arena (Arena Sylvio Mantha, Montreal)

(October 22) – Scott attends Celebrity Men Fashion Show (London, Ontario)

Tessa attends The Great Jewelry Heist and Rudsak Premiere (Toronto Fashion Week)

(October 23) Tessa does photo shoot (Adidas?) (Toronto, Ontario)

(October 26) Late Night Tessa styling at Saffron Road (London, Ontario)

(October 27) – BBB Wes.Ont. Business Integrity Awards (London, Ontario) (+) and Taste of Gold - GCW Kitchens (London, Ontario)

(October 28) – Tessa and Scott spotted at rink (Exeter, Ontario)

(October 29) – Tessa and Scott spotted skating at a community center (London, Ontario) – Halloween themed photo shoot series released from the Hair Gypsy and Medulla Co. collaboration

November

(November 3) – Tessa films for Ice Girls Movie (Sudbury, Ontario)

(November 5) – Tessa attends Gold Medal Plates (Toronto, Ontario) -Scott attends concert at bar in London

(November 7) – Tessa shoots stuff for Paper Crown

(November 9) – Tessa attends Gold Medal Plates (Ottawa)

(November 11) – Tessa and Scott spotted at Ilderton Skating Club (+) travel to St. John’s

(November 12) – Tessa and Scott visit a school for Kid Sport (+) Tessa and Scott MCs at Gold Medal Plates (St. John’s, NF)

(November 17) – Tessa goes to gym and decorates the house (London, Ontario)

(November 20) – Tessa and Scott Gold Medal Plates (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

(November 21) – Tessa and Scott Road to the Olympics CBC Sports (Toronto, Ontario)

(November 22) – Tessa and Scott shoot for CBC Sports at the Toronto Cricket Club (Toronto, Ontario) - Tessa shot stuff for Gaming Show IMPG

(November 23) – Tessa photo shoot at home for GCW Kitchens (London, Ontario)

Tessa and Scott midnight practice for Holiday Festival on Ice (Ilderton, Ontario)

(November 24) – Tessa attends AnaGolja collab with DDMCosmetics launch party (Toronto, Ontario)

(November 25) – Tessa is spotted at Union Square Train Station in Toronto (dance party on the train)

(November 27) – Tessa picked out new car at Acura West (London, Ontario)

(November 28) – Tessa attends the National Ballet’s “Romeo and Juliet” (Toronto, Ontario)

December

(December 1) – Tessa and Scott have dinner with couple from GMP Scotland (St. John’s, NF)

(December 2) – Holiday Festival on Ice (St. John’s, NF)

(December 4) – Holiday Festival on Ice (Summerside, Prince Edward Island)

(December 5) – Holiday Festival on Ice (Kingston, Ontario)

(December 6) – First Dub Mash videos!!!

(December 9) – Tessa attends Olympic Excellence talk (Toronto)

(December 10) – Tessa attends dinner/art show with friends (Toronto)

(December 11) – Tessa attends dinner with friends (Toronto)

(December 12) – Tessa and Scott – CBC Road to the Olympics GPF coverage (+) GMP wrap party (Toronto)

(December 14) – Tessa and Scott begin to create new programs

(December 15) – Tessa and Scott with D/L and David Wilson (The Sports Village, Vaughn) (+) Toronto Maple Leafs Game

(December 16) – Tessa and Scott – Night Out with MF//Miss Miku and Husband

(December 17-18) – Last Day in Toronto

(December 18) – behind the scenes video released of their new Ex

(December 19) – Scott at Wedding (Paris, Ontario)

(December 21) – Tessa hangs out with friends (London, Ontario)

(December 22) – Scott spotted at Joe Kool’s (London, Ontario)

(December 24 – 25) – Holidays with Family

(December 26) – Off to Japan

(December 28) – Medalists on Ice (Sapporo, Japan)

(December 29) – Tessa hangs out with her girlfriends (will be a bridesmaid) (London, Ontario)

********************** 2016 ********************

January

(January 2) – Tessa plays a canon doll for the Nutcracker (Toronto, On)

(January 6) – Tessa and Scott team bonding play hockey (Komoka, On)

(January 7) – Tessa and Scott spotted skating (YMCA in Komoka,On)

(January 13) – Tessa at Sorry Coffee Co. (Toronto, On)

(January 14) – Tessa and Scott spotted at a restaurant coming back from skating (Cambridge, On)

(January 16) – Tessa goes bride’s dress shopping with friend (+) dinner with family - Scott tweets again and is spotted at Junior Canadians hockey game in Lucan

(January 20) – Tessa and Scott travel to Halifax

(January 21) – filmed bits for TSN

(January 22) – CTV Morning Show

(January 23 - 24) – Canadian Nationals

(January 27) – Tessa and Scott support BellLetsTalk on Twitter

(January 30) – Tessa and Scott at a see-saw (Montreal)

(January 31) – Tessa at a spa (Montreal)

February

(February 2) – Tessa and Scott hip hop workshop

(February 3) – Tessa and Scott creating new Ex with Sam Chouinard

Tessa and Scott Habs game (Montreal)

(February 7) – Tessa at home (London)

(February 10) – Tessa and Scott at a rink (Toronto)

Scott out to dinner with Brian Orser and Marie France

(February 11) – Tessa out to dinner with the Hair Gypsy and friends

(February 14) – Tessa and Scott eat at Evviva Restaurant (Vaughn/Toronto)

(February 15) – Tessa and Scott filming/photo-shoot (The Sports Village, Vaughn)

(February 19) – Video shoot with Natalie Robinson and OPC Productions (Toronto)

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