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430 .miles of year round hiking
All trails lead to Tobermory
A discussion on deer hunting
and the introduction of Perth
County's new planner were
highlights of the 27th annual
meeting of the Perth County
Municipal Association in Mitchell
Thursday.
A number of rural councillors at
the all day meeting disagreed
with Ministry of Natural
Resources area manager Dap
Mansell who said the deer
hunting in the county wasn't
harmful.
Mr. Mansell said there are
enough deer in the county to
warrant a season and said most of
the hunters are local citizens.
Hibbert deputy reeve Henry
Harburn was one of those who
disagreed. He said the Ministry
was pushing a deer hunting
season on local residents who
didn't want it.
Ken Whiteford, the new county
planner who started work
Monday, told niembers that he
believed strongly in planning at
the local level. He will help
prepare plans and zoning bylaws.
for Perth niunicipalitieS as well a5
an overall county plan', he said.
Mr. Whiteford was county
planner in Grey County for the
past two years.
Hibbert clerk treasurer`
Charles Priend was elected Vice
president of the aSSSoeiatioii of
elected officials arid municipal!
employees: Bruce Aitchesen,
reeve of Downie Township, WAS
elected president. -
Alice Green, Ann McBride and
Jean Seat from the Perth District
Health Unit told association
members abOtif the doutity'S
Nine Care PrOgrariti i which
the Long Trail of Vermont and.
Appalachian. Trail. When
completed hikers will be able to
walk a "2,000-mile footpath from
Georgian Bay to Georgia".
It all started with the Bruce.
A walking trail from Niagara to
Tobermory was first proposed in
1959 to the Hamilton Naturalists'
Club by Ray Lowes, an open-
hearth metallurgist at Stelco (The
Steel Co. of Canada). A trail
association was formed a year
later and in 1963, recruitment of
members. began.
" The trail was completed in 1967
to mark Canada's 100th birthday.
Since then club members have
continued to maintain and
improve it and Stelco transferred
Mr. Lowes to the company's
public relations department so he
could work full-time for the
association.
White blazes on fence posts,
trees, stiles and rocks mark the
trail beginning at Queenston's
monument to Sir Isaac Brock, the
general who died a her o's death
in the War of 1812. Nearby is a
memorial to Laura Secord (best
known today for her candy and ice
cream). It was Laura. Secord who
led a cow away from her house
and set out on a desperate 20-mile
hike to warn Lt. James. Fitz-
Gibbon that the-Americans were
planning an attack.
As a result FitzGibbon won the
Battle of Beaver Dams in 1812.
Headng north the trail follows
ancient shores of post-gLacial
Lake Iroquois around the western
end of Lake Ontario.
It skirts exurbia -- the city
sprawl of Toronto and the Golden
Horseshoe; then winds its way
through typical Ontario farmland
to the Blrie Mountains, an area of
high bluffs and wide valleys full
of small wildlife, rare flowers and
ferns. Between Noisy and. Pretty
Rivers, the escarpment reaches
allows people who do not require
long hospitalization to be treated
in their own homes and about the
health unit's services for
pre-school children.
A Ministry , of Agriculture
engineer told the meeting that
new guidelines on how close to a
residence livestock can be raised
have been adopted. The
its highest elevation at 1,775 feet
above sea level.
Before the trail heads up the
east shore cliffs of the Bruce
Peninsula along Georgian Bay, it
follows the Beaver River Valley,
a slash in the escarpment that
reaches six-miles in width at its
mouth on the Nottawasaga Bay.
From Owen Sound the trail
hugs the shoreline along the
blue-green waters of Georgian
Bay. covering 135 miles of grey
rock bluffs and green valleys with
rare ferns such as heart's tongue
and walking fern.
At Malcolm Bluff, 300 feet
above Colpoy Bay, look down.
The water is 40 fathoms deep.
A series of campsites or
three-sided shelters along the
trail make it possible for back-
packers to cover the entire
distance.
Campsites range -from
provincial parks and city
campgrounds to permissionfrom
a farmer to pitch a tent on his
field. Other sites are available
from private commercial ventures
and tourist lodges. One is located
at Cape Crocker Indian Reserva-
tion run by Ojibway Indians as a
provincial park.
At Tobermory, trail's end,
hikers can take a water ita'xi from
Little Tub Harbor to Flowerpot
Island, a continuation of the
escarpment. The island, shaped
like a flowerpot, is a national park
with more hiking trails leading to
caves in the limestone cliffs.
Four other trails are connected
to the Bruce Trail. They include
the Ganaraska (from Port Hope to
Glen Huron); Credit Valley
Footpath (Norval to Georgetown);
Guelph Radial Line (Limehouse to
Guelph); and Speed River Trail,
which follows the Speed River.
Eventually the Voyageur Trail
from Espanola to Sault Ste Marie
will be accessible from the
minitry's new agricultural code of
practice will judge each situation
individually. Previously one set
standard applied across the
board.
Perth County engineer Tom
Collings told the officials that the
county should increase the
number of paved bicycle paths it
has, especially in Stratford.
northern end of the 'Bruce Trail.
Hikers will be able to take a ferry
from Tobermory to Manitoulin
Island, hike across the island and
over the bridge on the north shore
to Espanola.
Essential -to exploring the
Bruce is The Bruce Trail Guide
Book, available for $6 to non-
members from the Bruce Trail
Association, 33 Hardale Ave.,
Hamilton, Ontario. The book
provides detailed maps, tells
where to buy food, where to stay
(campsites and motels nearby),
lists highlights to explore such as
caves, and grades each section
according to hiking expertise and
stamina required to cover it.
Membership in the Bruce Trail
Association costs $5 for an adult
or family; $2 for, students. Gu •ide
books are sold to members for an
additional $4.
The trail can be hiked year
round. In the autumn when leaves
of deciduous trees turn red,
yellow and gold, conditions are
ideal. During winter, snow-
shoeing and cross-country skiing
can be done on ,sections without
stiles. Summer hikes are advised
to carry plenty of drinking water
and protect their legs from
scratchy plants.
Spring hiking requires water-
proof boots; in. May and. June
bring lots of insect repellent for
blackflies and mosquitoes.
Hiking t the north end of the
atrail demands good, turdy boots
that cover ankles. Because
rattlesnakes are found in this
area; it's also wise to carry a
snakebite kit.
Most of the Bruce Trail (like all
trails it the province) is on private
land with access allowed by the
landowners. Travel on the trail is
by foot only. Use of motorized
equipment and horseback riding
are prohibite.
For more information contact
the Canadian Government Office
of Tourism, 150 Kent Street,
Ottawa, ontario K1A OH6.
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By Mary Jane Charters.
The 430-mile Bruce Trail is `a
microcosm of Ontario.
It passes through the lush
fruit-growing belt of Niagara,
rolling farmlands, silent woods
and flowered meadows; past
modern industrial cities and
towns; and ends up following the
rugged, rocky shoreline of the
Bruce Peninsula where it is
washed by Georgian Bay:
The trail is a footpath, about
690'kilometres along the Niagara
Escarpment, a great ridge of
limestone rock formed 450 million
yearsago. It starts beside Sir
Isaac Brock's monument at
Queenston on the Niagara River,
and ends at Tobermory at the tip
of the Bruce Peninsula.
An estimated 100,000 persons
go for a walk' on the trail (or
connecting footpaths) in a,, year
and more than 7,000 are members
of 11 Bruce Trail Clubs across the
province.
Long-range plans in Ontario
call for a network of trails around
the Great Lakes which Henry
Graupner, spokesman for the
Federation of Ontario Hiking
Trail Associations calls, "more
than a dream".
The federation, formed in 1974,
represents 10 trail associations in
the province -- the Bruce, Thames
Valley (London to St. Marys;.
Grand Valley (Elora to Brantford)'
Voyageur (Sault Ste Marie to
Expanola), Quinte-Hastings
(north from Belleville), Rideau
(Kingston to Ottawa); plus four
trails that ,now hook into the
Bruce Trail.
Two other trail associations are
in the embryonic stage at
Thunder Bay and Stratford. All
are being built, and extended by
volunteers.
Also in the future is a link-up ti>-
with the Finger Lakes Trail in
New York state which hooks into
Perth county asks
Should deer hunting be allowed?
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