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Default Canoeing across Canada for beginners, by beginners

Gary S. Idontwantspam@net wrote in message . ..
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 13:36:25 GMT, Darryl Johnson
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Gary S. wrote in :

A US cross country trip often involves New York City to Los
Angeles, although this is arbitrary.

For Canada, the equivalent would involve Vancouver of course, but
what would be the typical East Coast end be? Halifax?

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)


A _real_ cross-Canada route would run from St. Johns, Newfoundland &
Labrador to Victoria, British Columbia.

But I know a number of people who have attempted a cross-Canada trip
have taken a bit of a shortcut and started in Halifax.


Agreed. We New Englanders consider a cross-country US trip starting in
New York a bit abbreviated as well.

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
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Yes, I would imagine so too. But in this case, one and a half time
zones have been left out! Terry Fox knew where to start his
cross-Canada trip..St. John's Nfld. I do admit though, that beginning
a paddle trip in Newfoundland would be very problematic. As far as I
know, there's only been one successful NS to NFLD paddle crossing,
that having been done this summer past by a 60+ year old man who not
only went solo, but told no one he was doing it. Yow.