An ever-changing list of walks I’ve done or would like to do. If it’s in bold italics it means I Did It!

Walks close to home in the Maritimes

• The Confederation Trail in PEI
• The Island Walk around Prince Edward Island
• Cape to Cape Nova Scotia style, from Cape Sable Island to Cape North on Cape Breton Island
• The Rum Runners Trail from Lunenburg to Halifax
• The Lahave River Loop, from Lunenburg to Riverport and up the Lehave River following the Lehave River Trail, and continuing across the province to Middleton in the Annapolis Valley (and, possibly, then back to Lunenburg via Windsor and Chester)
• The Cabot Trail around the northern end of Cape Breton island
• Fundy Shore – from St. Andrews NB to Digby NS, including Fundy National Park, the Fundy Footpath, and the Cape Chignecto Wilderness area
• The Newfoundland T’Railway Trail, from Channel Port Aux Basques to St. John’s

Walks in my home province of Ontario

• The Bruce Trail, Ontario
  • Niagara Section
  • Iroquois Section
  • Toronto Section
  • Caledon Section
  • Dufferin Highland Section
  • Beaver Valley Section
  • Blue Mountain Section
  • Sydenham Section
  • Peninsula Section
• Yonge Street (from Lake Ontario to Lake Simcoe)
• Tracing the path of Lord Simcoe from Fort George in Niagara-on-the-Lake to Fort York in Toronto
• The Great Trail T-O-M walk – Toronto to Ottawa to Montreal following the Great Trail routes
• Montreal to Toronto following the Waterfront Trail

Walks in the Toronto area

• Crisscross Toronto (west to east and south to north, across the city within its boundaries)
  • the length of Yonge, from the lake to Steeles
  • the length of Eglinton, from Etobicoke to Scarborough
  • Waterfront Trail from the Humber River to the Don River
  • Waterfront Trail from the Don River to the Rouge River
  • Up the Don River, from the Lake to Steeles Ave
• Waterfront to Wine
  • East, from Toronto to Prince Edward County along the Waterfront Trail
  • West, from Toronto to Niagara along the Waterfront Trail
  • South, from Toronto to Pelee Island along the Waterfront Trail
• The Great Trail in Southern Ontario (within 2 hours of Toronto)
  • Toronto Waterfront Trail
  • Toronto Pan-Am Trail
  • Toronto Pan-Am Connector
  • Niagara River Recreational Trail
  • Pickering Waterfront Trail
  • Durham County Recreational Trails
  • Laura Secord Legacy Trail
  • City of Hamiton Trails
  • Fort Erie to Hamilton connector trails
  • Hamilton to Brantford Rail Trail
  • Brantford to Kitchener connector trails
  • Kitchener to Elora connector trails
  • Elora to Barrie connector trails
• Oakridges Moraine Trail around greater Toronto

Walks out the world someplace

• Lands End in Cornwall to John O’Groats in Scotland, the length of Great Britain
• The Sli Dhun na nGall – the trails of Donegal in Ireland, including:
  • The Blue Stack Way
  • Slí Cholmcille
  • Slí An Earagail
  • Slí Na Finne
  • Slí Na Rosann
• Mizen Head to Malin Head, the length of Ireland between the southwestern and northwestern tips of the island
• The Ireland Way
• A Donegal Walk, following the coast between Donegal town and Derry
• The European Ramblers E8 trail, from Dublin to Kerry
• Hadrian’s Wall path, England
• The Thames Path in England, from source to the sea
• Camino de Santiago, specifically the Comino Portuguese from Porto in Lisbon to Campostella in Spain
• The GR1 Tour de Paris
• Manhattan Shore Walk (circumference of the island of Manhattan)
• The Te Araroa Trail in New Zealand from the northern tip of the North Island to the southern tip of the South Island

Personal Journeys

• The journey of the Bradt Brothers, tracing my ancestors from New Amsterdam (now New York) up the Hudson to Albany and then west across upstate NY, across to Fort Erie, and along the Talbot Trail to Leamington in Essex County, SW Ontario, where I was born.