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

Every year since beginning our #Hike4Birds we have sought to set out in April to hike the Trans Canada Trail in the cooler spring weather, to watch the landscape come to life, and to witness spring migration.  Every year, we make our plans, set out our itinerary, and then something happens.  2019 was weather delayed, 2020 and 2021 were both Covid delayed, and now this year – a week after making our reservations to return to Quebec – things have again fallen apart.  Meaning that at the present, we both feel pretty crummy, powerless to control our situation and frustratingly incapable of determining the course of our lives. As such last night, less than 12 hours, before we were due to get on a train to Montreal we had to make a decision.  Circumstances have given us pause for thought and it was no longer going to be possible to trek Quebec Canada in the coming month.  And so we have decided to wait and fill the coming 30-40 days by getting ourselves in shape and getting ready to return t

Excited to announce that over the next couple of years – largely during our time off Sentier Transcanadien / The Great Trail - we will be building a virtual Story Map to take students on a virtual hike across Canada on the Trans Canada Trail to learn geography, history, and science as explorers from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic! We have been fortunate to be awarded a Research Grant by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society to help with the costs of developing this amazing educational tool! The goal of this project will be to create a Story Map that takes elementary school students on a virtual hike across Canada on the 28,000 km long Trans Canada Trail, allowing them to learn about the country's geography, history, ecology and wildlife as they cross the country as virtual explorers.  This high-quality education resource will combine well-researched, fact-based information, professional quality photos, and on-the-ground video footage collected during the 'Come Wa

Today I was informed that I have been nominated for a prestigious Canadian Wildlife Federation's Conservation Award!       Each year since 1975, the Canadian Outdoorsperson of the Year Award has been presented to an outstanding individual in the field of conservation. The award has since been renamed in honour of the CWF founding president Stan Hodgkiss. Nominees for CWF Conservation Awards have demonstrated an active commitment to conservation in Canada is eligible for this award .  I am deeply honoured and humbled by being nominated and having our 27,000 km trek on the Trans Canada Trail to promote diversity and accessibility to the outdoors which strives to inspire Canadian youth to reconnect to nature through citizen science and birding! See you on the trail! Remember to follow our entire adventure here : www.comewalkwithus.online