Come Walk With Us on the Trans Canada Trail (TCT)

Still looking for that perfect gift for the nature lover, birder, or hiker on your holiday list? Check out the new items in our online store! We are excited to offer two different 9" x 12" coil-bound 12 month hanging wall calendars for 2021 (yes, both are for 2021). The first one features a colourful bird image for each month that was hand-picked to reflect the diversity of birds in Canada. Images were taken during our #hike4birds along Canada's 27,000 km Great Trail, and each one is accompanied by a short description. The second calendar features a different trail image for each month that was specially selected to reflect the season. Statutory holidays and other important celebrations in Canada are denoted in small print within the appropriate date squares. We also still have a few sets of 6 Folded Note Cards showing professional-quality photos of birds, animals, landscapes, and hiking-related images, as well as t-shirts available. All...

As we exist and continue west without Sponsorship we are trying some new ways this year to help cover the expense of our trek in 2020.  Best of all ordering any of these card sets means one less trip to the busy malls and stores this season! New items for Come Walk With Us have arrived! This means that there are new ways for people to sponsor our ongoing #hike4birds across Canada on the Trans Canada Trail. Today we are releasing 4 sets of cards! Each set contains 6 cards! Choose from our Hiking Set (signs and inspiration for trekkers), our Birding set (avian sightings and photographs taken along The Great Trail), our Wildlife set (including porcupines, black bears, deer, and insets along the Great Trail), and our Landscape series  (with settings from Newfoundland to Manitoba!) Look into our webpage : https://www.comewalkwithus.online/online-store   Check out examples below and check out our website for other cards !     See you on the trail! Rem...

I am honoured and excited to have been accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society !  The Royal Canadian Geographical Society was founded in 1929 with the goal of making Canada better known to Canadians and the world.  It is also active in building and supporting geographic education throughout the country through Can Geo Education. Speakers at this year's Annual College of Fellows Dinner included explorer Mario Rigby, author and fellow birder Margaret Atwood, survivor man Les Stroud, traveller, actor, and comedian Michael Palin,  and Justin Trudeau, Canada's 23rd Prime Minister.    It is an incredible honour to join the ranks of Canada's explorers - both old and new!  As we continue our #hike4birds across Canada on the 27,000 km long the Great Trail / Trans Canada Trail in the coming years, we will do our best to continue inspiring people of all ages, cultural backgrounds, abilities, genders, orientations, and identi...

Looking for a gift for friends and family?   Looking for a way to support a trek and #hike4birds across Canada? All without having to venture into a store or mall. After a challenging – and financially crippling year which has included Covid, the destruction of a camera, a wide angle lens, and other unexpected costs.   To this end we have revised our website and, in an effort to pay off the year’s debts and have some savings to enable us to continue or venture to the Pacific along Canada’s 24,000 km Great trail. This year we are offering a number of items like T-Shirts, sets of Gift Cards featuring photographs from along The Great Trail and larger printings of images of our trek in exchange for a donation. Today we are releasing another set of our well received shirts which include our trek logo! These are available for a $30.00 Canadian donation and come in a variety if of sizes!  We would invite you to give these a consideration, and become part of this a...

Life is full of change – it is what makes it wondrous, full of the unexpected and at times heartbreaking. For a few days I have worked to draft a humorous post about the ‘frustrations’ of trekking with and sometimes living with a presidential historian. In my world (and I suppose yours) the past year and the last several few weeks have been a non-stop flurry of historical factoids, statistics and analysis delivered with the professionalism of a university lecture hall from my hiking companion. His love of American History and Presidential facts is fascinating at the best of times, fills the hours while trekking, and becomes exasperating every 4 years during election season. Few people can daily read polling statistics, county by county and state by state, for months and still be excited with each new update. While we all have opinions and views of what is taking place the reality is - for our cousins and families south of the Canadian border - that today is their day to reaffir...