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Trent-Severn News

Canadian Boaters Alliance Among Presenters to the Panel on the Future of the Trent-Severn Watery.

Barrie, Ontario......... September 12, 2007. "Organized and Passionate" was the compliment passed on to Ernie Williams and Doug Sinclair after their presentation to the Panel on the Future of the Trent-Severn Watery. Williams and Sinclair were representing the Ontario division of the Canadian Boaters Alliance at the Barrie meeting on Wednesday September 12. The panel was meeting with the public about the complex issues, challenges and opportunities facing the system. Along with about 15 pariticpants the six member board were presented with written presentations , and heard from private citizens who recently travelled the Trent Severn Historical Waterway. Comparisons were made to the Rideau-System and comments were made about better story telling about our Canadian icons and the the Kirkfield Locks 100 year anniversary.

All participants seemed to be looking at the same horizon and a firm belief that this historic river route is a Canadian cultural icon deeply embedded in the psyche of the boaters, cottagers, and land visitors to the 44 various locks throughout the 386 km from Georgian Bay to Trenton.

The major communities involved with the Trent-Severn range from Port Severn, Port Stanton, through Orillia, Barrie, Keswick, Sutton, Fenelon Falls, Lindsay, Port Perry, Bobcaygeon, Lakefield, Peterborough, Hastingss Campbellford, and Trenton. The Trent-Severn basin and watersheds include areas up to Minden and Haliburton to the north, Bancroft to the East, and South of Gravenhurst to the West. Accessible lakes throught the system include, Balsam Lake, Buckhorn Lake, Cameron Lake, Lake Couchiching, Lake Simcoe, Rice Lake, Sparrow Lake, Lake Scugog, Sturgeon Lake, Stoney Lake, Pigeon Lake and several additional Kawaratha Lakes.

Sinclair and Williams alos presented possible viable solutions to the apparant funding problems, management challenges and promotion opportunities required to take the Trent-Severn into the future.

Panel recommendations will be submitted in December 2007.

For more information on the Panel go to http://www.tswpanel.ca/english

/default.asp. Additonal links for those interested in the Trent-Severn Waterway are as follows

Parks Canada - Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site of Canada
Year after year, the Trent-Severn Waterway, meandering 386 km along central Ontario, continues to create unique experiences. After each spring thaw, ...
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Parcs Canada - Lieu historique national du Canada de la Voie ...
Lieu historique national du Canada de la Voie-Navigable- Trent–Severn / Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site of Canada.
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Trent-Severn Waterway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Trent-Severn Waterway is a Canadian canal system formerly used for commercial purposes but now exclusively for pleasure boats, connecting Lake Ontario ...
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Publishers Comments: The Trent-Severn Historic Waterway should be one of Ontario's top 10 destinations to visit. I recently stumbled upon the Kirkfield Locks on an Ontario road trip on the eve of their 100 year anniversary celebration. This brought back childhood memories when my parents took us to the Peterborough Locks while staying at a cottage on Rice Lake. It also reminded me of how this is still an engineering marvel reflective of the best technology at the time of its completion. The Photos included were taken at the Kirkfield Locks on a beautiful summer day in July.

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