labador ends up thousands of km from home

[haryv]

Montreal pooch safe after incredible cross-country journey ends in B.C. - Yahoo! News

If the dog hitched a frieght train car on his own, I think it would make for a more interesting story

 

[canucksafari]

That one isn't hard to figure out. She was likely picked up by a Francophone hippie/drifter and they made there way out to BC for the summer picking season. They come out in droves every spring and summer. The person probably decided to bus/fly somewhere and just abandoned the dog.