Great Southern (train) Great Southern (train) Great Southern is an upcoming Australian passenger rail service operated by Great Southern Rail between Adelaide and Brisbane both ways. The inaugural journey is planned to depart from Adelaide on 6 December 2019. Similar to Great Southern Rail's other luxury rail holidays on "The Ghan" and the "Indian Pacific", "Great Southern" will be a slow journey across the country with a series of off-train guided tours along the route. The Adelaide to Brisbane service will take three days and feature guided tours of the Grampians National Park in Victoria, Canberra and beaches along the northern coast of
Esther Ghan Firestone 30 Mar 1962. Esther Ghan Firestone Esther Ghan Firestone (1925 – 28 May 2015) was the first female cantor in Canada, although she was not ordained. She began as a cantor in the mid-1950s at Toronto’s Temple Beth-El, and worked in Toronto at Temple Beth-El (mid-1950s to mid-1960s), Temple Emanu-El (1977), and later at Congregation Habonim Toronto from 1985 until some time in 2015. She was also a member of Kol Nashim (Hebrew for “All Women”), a sextet of female lay cantors founded in 1987. Aside from her cantorial work, she was a singer; after training as a pianist in