This is a motion that was passed at the Annual General Meeting of the Voyageur Trail Association on Oct 26 in Bruce Mines. This has to do with the Trans Canada Trail and the affiliation between the VTA and the TCT.
2013.06.02 Trans Canada Trail (Susan
Graham): TCT is looking for us to commit to building/maintaining the
route of the VTA trail between the Soo and Sudbury as the TCT “spine” of
the route, or de-register which allows the TCT to support the proposed
cycling route as the “spine” instead. Don McGorman, Susan Graham and
Gayle Phillips met with Melissa Pomeroy last Thursday evening to talk
about the TCT affiliation and Susan gave a report. After much discussion
the following motion was made:
MOTION by Susan (seconded by Gayle Phillips):
Susan to inform Melissa that the VTA supports the cycling trail route
as the ‘spine’ of the TCT across Northern Ontario and the VTA trail
route as a secondary affiliated route for primarily hiking use only.
(carried) (closed)"
"This
does not change our VTA trails . All it does is mean that the main
Trans Canada Trail is going to be along the highway 17 corridor as a
biking route and in some places a canoe route. Our VTA trails are
off-shoots or secondary trails of the main TCT. The
Trans Canada trail between Thunder Bay and Sault Ste Marie will now be
a Blue Way which is a canoe / kayak route. The land routes of the VTA
between Thunder Bay and SSM will still be maintained as before but as
secondary routes to the TCT. "
