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Local First Nations elders joined hometown boy David Foster, Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon, Valerie Pringle and others at the Inn at Laurel Point on Thursday to unveil a plaque marking the connection of the B.C. section of the trail. In Victoria the TCT Trail includes David Foster Way along the Inner Harbour.
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The vision for the trail came after Canada 125 celebrations. Bill Pratt, president of the organizing committee for the 1988 Olympics, and Pierre Camu, a geographer and transport executive, looked at each other and asked, B次元官网网址渨hat if we joined all the trails together in the country and made the longest recreational trail in the world?B次元官网网址�
They formed the Trans Canada Trail Foundation and Canadians everywhere donated in numbers both big and small to make the vision possible.
Pringle, co-chair of the TCT Foundation, said the completion of the trail is nothing short of a miracle, the result of a lot of hard work from countless supporters over the years including Guichon, Sen. Nancy Greene Raine and the among others. Most recently, the federal government pledged $30 million over the next five years to continue to build and grow the trail.
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