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Article: Trans Canada Trail now officially open.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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When Deputy Prime Minister Herb Gray proudly announced that the Trans Canada Trail was now officially open, the crowd assembled at Jacques Cartier Park in Hull, Que. cheered and applauded the completion of one of the most monumental projects ever undertaken, the Trans Canada Trail Relay 2000.
The concluding ceremony on Sept. 9 saw the water from the Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific oceans that had been carried cross-country by 5,000 official carriers symbolically poured into the newly built Trans Canada Trail Fountain.
Although the Trans Canada Trail is only about 52 per cent completed, this "official opening" was more of a beginning than the end of ...