An interview in Winnipeg provides an example of the issue of traveling on the Sabbath. a recurring problem in Twain's travels  This is the subject of Mark Twain and Sunday Streetcars: An Interview in Winnipeg by Taylor Roberts.  The interviewer was Marie Jousaye for the Toronto Globe, 10 August 1895 and is included in Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews.

Toronoto did not have Trolley service on Sundays due primarily to the Lord's Day Alliance, a national coalition of Protestant Church organizations.  Marie Jousaye was president of the Working Women's Protective Association, one of several business, labour and political groups in Toronto advocating Sunday trolley service in 1893.