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Rattler Time the Rattler Team Had to Work Re- If You Are Member Or Land Owner for the BTC and Your Club The ISSUE #1 2017 President’s Message This an exciting and busyRattler time The Rattler team had to work re- If you are member or land owner for the BTC and your club. The !nal ally hard on this edition so that we near the trail please join us at Sum- BTC 50th Anniversary event will be could cram in all the notices and merhouse Park, Miller Lake for the held in Tobermory on June 10th stories. Great work folks! AGM and say hello. and you are invited! The prepara- Our AGM is May 13th after we tion within the club has been going Please enjoy the various stories enjoy a day of trail preparation on and hikes available this year and on since last year starting with the Spruce up the Bruce Day, a tradition renewal of the website so we could particularly enjoy getting out to see started by the southern clubs that the Peninsula from the Bruce Trail, get more collaborative input. That supported the north back in the has been a great success and we it is a gift from pioneers and trail ‘80s when there were not enough builders. have normal information sections volunteers to maintain our section Walter Brewer on hiking and getting around the (see what you can learn from the club services as well as a blog and a archives!). If you are a Captain or a President PBTC special section for the 50th Anni- Land Steward, please try to get on Wild Apple Trees at Jan & Jim’s Land versary where stories about the trail the land to enjoy it and clean it up by Cornelia Peckart and the people who built it will be or the visitors that are coming. featured all year. (see details pg 19) Our Communications Team of Marianne Williams and Susan Allen have arranged for the new site and the coordination of the material that will go into it and The Rattler and Facebook. However, behind all this is our remarkable Archivist, Deb Sturdevant who has spent two years organizing archival material so that it can be used by many of us. See her story of the beginning of the club, it was not as simple as you would think. The o"cial Pen- insula Club name for the complete section did not come into being until the 1980s! Hikes! Yikes! There are a bunch of ways to get a badge and to do your E2E, you could do it twice! See the notices and web page for details. There are Bus Hikes, Baton relay hikes and traditional hikes as well as the BTC 50 K challenge with yet another badge. Peninsula Bruce Trail Club Contents Issue #1, 2017 P.O. Box 1087, Wiarton, ON President’s Message .................................................... pg. 1 N0H 2T0 The Early Years: Challenges & Achievements ...... pg. 3 www.pbtc.ca The Early Years (cont’d) ................................................. pg. 4 [email protected] The Early Years (cont’d) + A Problem Solved pg. 5 Contact Ken Clark The Origins - Land Stewardship Program .. pg. 6 Telephone: 519-270-7644 The Early Years (cont’d) ............................................ pg. 7 [email protected] 50th Anniversary Celebration + +............... pg. 8 pg. 9 Bruce Trail Conservancy 50th Baton Relay Schedule ................................. Easy Hikes with Elaine ....................................... pg. 10 P.O. Box 857 Sydenham Section - End to End .................... pg. 11 Hamilton, ON Invitation to All Hikers/Sketchers .................. L8N 3N9 ...............plus Birding Hike ...... pg. 12 www.brucetrail.org Turning Points: the decade from 1993 ....... pg. 13 [email protected] The Early Years (cont’d)+Turning Points (cont’d) pg. 14 Telephone: 800-665-4453 Turning Points (cont’d).......................................... pg. 15 Telephone: 905-529-6821 Pat & Pete Elliot ................................................... pg. 16 Fax: 905-529-6832 SUTB & AGM + Never Miss + Nominating pg. 17 Newsletter Editors: Committee ........................................................... Let me start with the words “I miss you”...... pg. 18 Content : Kathryn Orr Member & Volunteer Info Update ................. Julie Heinrichs ........plus... Cover Artist ..... pg. 19 Layout: Jan MacKie Please send us your stories: [email protected] * * Sign Up * * For The Rattler Online DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS Why get the Rattler by email? 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Email: [email protected] The current executive team of the Peninsula Bruce Trail Club can be found on our website: www.pbtc.ca 2 The Early Years: Challenges and Achievements, 1962 to 1992 Deb Sturdevant, PBTC Archivist This 50th anniversary year is a great opportunity to consider the very beginning of the Bruce Trail, and the great accomplishment of establishing and maintaining this Trail and conservation corridor! Early Club Development & Initial Trail Building The idea of the Bruce Trail was news articles reporting on plan ǡ ǤǤ ǡ - initially suggested in 1959 at a ning meetings, and word of mouth. ǡ ǡ ǡ Hamilton Naturalist Club meeting. For example, in July 1963 a Bruce ǡ ǡ In 1960, the Bruce Trail Committee Trail themed Eastnor Horticultural Cross, Howard and Bruce Krug, was established under the leader- ϐϐ Cuyler Hauch, the Adams family, ship of the Federation of Ontario ǡ Duncan Armstrong, Ivan Lemcke Naturalists (until the Bruce Trail spreading information about the and others. Many of these Association (“BTA”) was formed planned trail. people also served as original in 1963, later renamed the Bruce executive members, as did fam- ȋ ϐ- ǡ Trail Conservancy (“BTC”) in - 2007). Shirley Johnstone, Dorothy Fowler, insula Bruce Trail Club in 1964.) and Connie Forbes. The trail was completed and ǯǤ ϐ ϐ Owners of the land over which it in June 1967; but work started on - was hoped the trail would cross developing the trail here in 1962. curred in summer 1962. A number for permission. With no email, and - of people were inspired very early ϐ tive through newspaper advertise- on, including the families of Alf Ad- expensive long distance charges, ments in Toronto papers, local ams, Tom Adams, J.C. (Baise) Munn, to letters sent to many absentee landowners, including United States residents. During 1963 ǡ- tatives expressed great pleasure at the positive response of many land- owners. The strong presence of local landowners and community leaders on the committee certainly played a role in this success. ǡ ǤǤ Reeve of St. Edmunds Township Lion’s Head. ....(cont’d on page 4) Photo: Courtesy of Bruce County Museum, A2014.003.K-64-13-23 - Not in this order: Sid Street, Peter Street, Bud Street, Don McLean, Working on the Bruce Trail at Cave Jeff Ankenmann, Ken Steinhoff, Tom Soper and Howard Krug Point dump Oct. 25, 1964. 3 Early Years (cont’d from page 3) beside the escarpment edge to High Dump.) Howard ǡ ǡ- ǯǦDz tiative to suggest the trail cross their land after read- dz Ǥ ϐ nature of the area, including the fascinating views ǡ Ǥ an active role in establishing and maintaining other were the access challenges, sometimes resulting in portions of trail as well. When permissions to cross more time spent hiking to the trail than working on it. ǡ Much is the same as today, but they were working build the Trail as rapidly as possible and later, if found ǡ Ǧǡǡǡ advisable, make route changes. Those route changes convenient gear and equipment. continue in the present! ͳͻ͸ͷǡ Many laboured through the dense and rugged bush ǣ ǡ Lower Bruce Club (Wiarton to Sydney Bay), Lion’s for others to discover. For many then, as today, trail ȋǯȌǡ clearing was a labour of love, but a labour all the Club (Dyer’s Bay to Tobermory). Enough of the trail same, and a very time-consuming task! Cape Croker ϐ ϐǡ to inspire others. The Walkerton Herald reported ǯ ǯ that the Cape Croker section of trail was likely to be Bay, from Whippoorwill Bay to Lion’s Head, and from complete by July 1963. With too few hands, however, Lion’s Head to Wiarton (with the exception of Hope ǤȌ daunting! In the 1963 Spring Bruce Trail News, Lion’s Head area representative Alan Fowler put out a plea ϐͳͻ͸͹ǡ for help: “So far, a considerable amount of work has resident Ruth Arnsberger, an accomplished artist and been done by interested ladies, but some sections weaver, designed the cairn which marks the north- are quite rough and require experienced male help.” ern terminus of the trail in Tobermory. The cairn (These days the request for those capable of heavy was constructed by Ivan Lemcke, a self-taught stone lifting would no doubt leave the gender out - many of ǯ ǨȌ Ǥ arrowhead. Ǥ ǡ ϐ Howard Krug and his brother Bruce owned land in 10, 1967 Tobermory ceremony before about four the area, but lived in Chesley, Bruce County. They hundred people, with guest speaker the Hon. Rene Brunelle, Ontario Ministry of Lands and Forest, who head north up to eight days a year in 1964 and 1965 indicated that the Trail opening signaled the “begin- to work on the original trail between Cabot Head ning of a long range programme to preserve a unique ǡ ǤǤ natural and historic resource.
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