Trans Canda Trail

Has anybody considered this? Allthough it's only 65% done, once completed it will be over 18'000km long, stretching coast to coast, then up to the Yukon. Alot of the trail is done in long sections and is just waiting to be hiked.

 

i haven't even heard of this. does it go through every province?

 

it's be pretty rough going getting to pei.

 

hah. good call..

 

Sounds like fun. I've met lots of Canadians on the AT and while living in New England. Why are ya'll so damn cool people. Canucks rock!

 

i don't know about canucks...but i do agree that canadians are pretty sweet.

does anyone know what a canuck is, anyway? (besides a hockey team, obviously..)

 

As my grandmother explained it to me, in the French Canadian patois, a Canuck is the senior janitor at a bus station who wears a three-piece suit to work. In other words, someone who has a seriously over-inflated opinion of himself.

So yeah, it's not a very nice thing to say.

 

Yeh, it runs through every province. Here is a map stolen from the main website for the trail. The blue line shows a canoe route.

 

Speaking of, can any of you wonderful brothers and sisters up north answer this? At one time it was possible to navigate 4/5ths of Canada east to west by canoe. Is this still possible?

 

the voyageurs did it in 1967 for the canadian centennial..10 or so teams

 

thats bullshit. canuck is just a slang term for Canadian. ie... the Vancuver Canucks are really just the Vancouver Canadians. its an off traslation of one the old native languages.

 

That's what I always thought. I never thought of "Canuck" as being a derrogatory term.

 

Don't tell me. Dig up grandmere and tell her. She didn't speak English until she was 9, I'm pretty sure she knew what it meant. I personally don't care, I don't like labels. Instead of canuck, how about "person". Sounds so much nicer.

 

Untrue. Allthough it has nothing to do with janitors or bus stations, it does have to do with French Canadians. It's a historical term like Yankee. However, these days, it's simply used as a slang term.

 

OK, maybe I wasn't clear. Canuck was a derogatory term for someone who suffers from hubris. Overweaning pride. An unnecessarily high opinion of ones self. The Janitor thing was an example. It may no longer mean that as a coloquial term, but that's what it meant.

 

actually canuck has to do with being a canadian ..........french canadians are quebecers or if you are from this area ..ACADIAN..........also a lot of franco-ontariens and.manitobins etc etc