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| 7:30 -9:00am | Registration | ||
| 8:00 – 8:20am |
Opening Remarks: Warden Don MacKay, Oxford County |
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| 8:20 – 9:00am |
The Ontario Trails Strategy – Renewed Mandate Craig Stewart, Manager and Carol Oitment, Project Managers; Ministry of Health Promotion Domenica Ozarko, Director, Strategic Policy, Partnerships and Research Branch Larry Ketcheson, CEO, Parks and Recreation Ontario. John Lohuis, Canadian Parks and Recreation Association Moderator: Chris Laforest, President, Ontario Trails Council President |
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| 9:00 – 10:00am |
Rouge Park – Canada’s First Urban Wilderness Park Invited Speakers: Diana Smyth, Trail Coordinator, Rouge Park Mike Bender, Manager of Conservation Lands, Toronto Region Conservation Authority Don Ross, Executive Director, Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve Moderator: Cathy Bingham, Director, Carolinian Canada Coalition |
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| 10:00 – 10:10am | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:10 – 11:00am | Trails Education – About the OTC Program
Invited Speakers: Jeff Jackson, Professor, Algonquin College Paul Ronan, Executive Director, Ontario Parks Association Graham Burke, Facilitator, Ontario Trails Education Program Moderator: Damian Bradley, Chair Trillium Trail Education Program |
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| 11:00 – 11:50am | The Provincial Cycling Strategy
Invited Speakers: J. David McGlaughlin, Senior Planner, MMM Group Michael Canzi, Ministry of Transportation Doug Cota, President, Cycle Ontario Moderator: Alan Medcalf, Board Member, Ontario Trails Council |
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| 12:00 – 1:00pm |
Working Luncheon with Ontario Trails Council AGM
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| 1:00 – 2:00pm
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Provincial – National Trails Panel
With Remarks from – Minister of Tourism and Culture, The Honourable Michael Chan Invited Speakers: Robert Ramsay, Director, Canadian Off-Highway Vehicles Dennis Burns, Executive Director, Canadian Council of Snowmobile Organizations John Cushing, President, Canadian Trails Federation Moderator: Wayne Daub, All Terrain Quad Council of Canada |
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| 2:00-2:50pm | Regional Trail Initiatives
CASO Line - with Kathryn Kielstra Perth County Active Transportation – with Kerry Price Wellington County Active Transportation – with Chris Gosselin Essex Trail Development - with Kevin Money, ERCA Moderator: Patrick Connor, Ontario Trails Council |
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| 3:00 – 3:15pm | Coffee Break | ||
| 3:15 – 4:30pm | Northern Trail Projects
Nipigon Rail To Trail - with Kirsten Spence and Nipigon Economic Development Path of the Paddle - with Trans Canada Trail and Hap Wilson Moderator: Dan Andrews, Trans Canada Trail Ontario |
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| 5:00 – 7:00pm | Canadian Trails Federation Annual General Meeting |
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| Time | Planned Program | Planned Program |
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| 7:30 – 9:00am | Registration | |
| 9:00 – 10:30am | SAY YES to Trails
This plenary session will provide examples from trail leaders who have achieved trail development in the face of competing challenges. Bring your local clerk and a counsellor! This session will teach them about the value of trails and why, SAYING YES to TRAILS works for these communities and how they can say it more at home! Opening Remarks - Warden Don Mackay, Zorra-Tavistock Invited Speakers: Tom Beaton, Director, Parks, Recreation and Cemeteries Chatham-Kent Jay Cranstone, Planner, MMM Group Stephen Paul, Director, Economic Development, Lennox and Addington County Moderator: Damian Bradley, Ontario Trails Council |
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| 10:30-10:40am | Coffee Break | |
| 10:40-11:50am | Carolinian Canada Coalition:
Building the CCC Lake Erie Stewardship Trail Invited Speakers: Michelle Kantor, Executive Director, CCC Trail Dan Dufour, Director of Trail Development, CCC Trail Moderator: Cathy Bingham, Director CCC Trail |
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| 12:00 – 1:00pm | Luncheon |
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| 1:00 – 3:00pm | Trails Tourism – A cohesive RTO approach
Invited Speakers: Michele MacKenzie, CEO Canadian Tourism Commission James Murphy, Director, Explorers Edge Beth Potter, President Tourism Industry Association of Ontario Bill Sullivan, Director of Marketing RTO7 Moderator: Chris Hughes, BC Hughes Toursim Consulting |
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| 3:00 – 3:15pm | Coffee Break | |
| 3:15 – 5:00pm | On the Oxford Trails – Tour Oxford County Trails with Guides from the Oxford County Trails Committee | |
| Time | Elm Hurst Inn And Spa | ||
| 8:30am – 12:00 | Trails Skills Training Program |
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| 12:00 – 1:00pm | Lunch |
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| 1:00 – 4:30pm |
Trail Skills Development Training
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