To be worth it’s salt, any journey across Canada has to begin in St.John’s Newfoundland .Where else could a Rider find “ Mile One” of the Trans-Canada highway? On our tour across the country we will flirt again and again with the beloved Trans-Canada, so best to start with” Mile One”. The Atlantic Stage should be an exciting 5 days of salt sea air, fog and Moose dodging. We’ll ride in every Atlantic province, take two ferries crossing both the Cabot & Northumberland straits, and rumble across one of the longest bridges in the world. We can’t promise you’ll see a whale but you will see lots of Newfoundland rock, PEI red mud, Nova Scotia shoreline and New Brunswick forest. You would also be hard pressed to find a cluster of more historic Canadian cities than St.John’s, Halifax , Charlottetown and Moncton but we will roll through them all. A very importantly we will have an opportunity to parade into two famous Canadian Military complexes and have a chance to show our support of the Troops!

Total Stage Time: 5 days

Total Stage Mileage: 1884 km.

Accommodation Required: 5 nights (not including the night before in St.John’s)

Stage Start: St.John’s NFLD

Stage End: Fredericton NB

Tolls: (2) Ferries (1) Very long Bridge

Events: Opening Ceremony,(3) Parades (2) Military Ceremonies, Assorted dinners and breakfasts.

 

Sunday August 1^st is the kick off of the Motorcycle Ride for Dad Cross-Canada Tour !  We will begin with opening ceremonies In St John’s (exact time and location TBA). Hosted by Tour Co-Chair Gen.Rick Hillier (ret) and emceed by television and recording star and Tour Marshall Wayne Rostad and featuring a host of celebrities to send us on our way.    We will parade our motorcycles through town and out mile one of Highway

 #1. Heading north we stop for the evening in Grand Falls-Windsor   Supper will be at (?) where we hope you can join us.

 We stay the night in Grand Falls-Windsor NFLD 

Distance Traveled : 413 km

 

Some of the towns we will pass through, or close to on Day #1:

 

Mount Pearl,Briaus Junction, Chapel Arm, Tickle harbor, Come By Chance, Deep Bight,

Shoal Harbour, Glovertown, Gambo, Gander, Glenwood, Norris Arm, Jumpers Brook &

Bishop’s Falls.

If you are out and about, come give us a wave!

 

 

 

 

Day.2   Monday August 2nd

Monday we start the day off with a morning briefing/breakfast (time & location TBA), leaving Grand Falls-Windsor, we’re back on Highway #1 heading west.   We swing north, then west, then south west, by Corner Brook and on to Channel-Port aux Basques, the ferry port on Cabot Strait, separating the Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of St.Lawrence.    We Ferry from there south/west across Cabot Strait to North Sidney, Cape Breton,Island Nova Scotia.

We stay the night in Sydney/North Sydney Nova Scotia.

 Distance Travelled : 443 km (excluding Ferry)

 

Some of the towns we will pass through, or close to on Day #2:

 

Thunderbrook, Badger, South Brook, Sheppardville, Deer Lake, Corner Brook

St.Georges, Cordroy Pond, Coal Brook, McDougall Gulch, & Red Rocks.

If you are out and about, come give us a wave !

 

 

 

Tuesday we roll out of Sydneynorth on Hwy #125, then turn south-west down the length of Cape Breton Island to Port Hastings. We cross the Canso Strait and pick up  Hwy#4/#104 to Antigonish, then drop south on Hwy #7 to the Ocean and then swing west along the south coast to Dartmouth. We will gather and parade into CFB Shearwater for a ceremony with the Military. We may then parade to a military function in Halifax. (TBD).

Supper media /meeting with the Halifax MRFD Chapter members. (Time & Location TBD)

We stay the night in Halifax Nova Scotia

Distance Travelled : 483 km

 

Some of the towns we will pass through, or close to on Day #3:

 

Big Hill, Baddeck, Whycocomagh, Kingsville, Queensville, Tracadi, Lower South River,

Salt Springs, Lochaber, Stillwater, Goldenville, Spanish Ship Bay, Ecum Secum,

Moose River, Sheet Harbour, Popes Harbour, Head of Chezzetcook

 If you are out and about, come give us a wave !

 

Day.4 Wednesday August 4^th

 

As we did on Monday, we will start the day off with a morning briefing/breakfast (time & location TBA),

We then head north out of Halifax Hwy#102. After Tuesday’s tour along the coast it’s time to “four-lane” it for a bit as we head in-land.    At Truro we back-track east on the TransCanada,Hwy.#104 to New Glasgow, then north on Hwy.#106 to the Ferry at Caribou.   

Time to bid farewell to Nova Scotia as we once again cross the Northumberland Strait to beautiful Prince Edward Island !   From Wood Islands PEI we rejoin Hwy.#1 and run north to the “Cradle of Confederation”, Charlottetown !

Supper media /meeting with the PEI MRFD Chapter members. (Time & Location TBD)

We stay the night in Charlottetown, PEI.

Distance Travelled : 224 km

 

Some of the towns we will pass through, or close to on Day #4:

 

Enfield, Shubenacadie, Stewiake, Hilden, Bible Hill, Kemptown, Mount Thorn,

New Gairlocho, Loch Broom, Pictou, Belle River, Flat River, Pinette, Cherry Valley

If you are out and about, come give us a wave !

 

 

Day.5 Thursday August 5^th

 

Again we will start the day off with a morning briefing/breakfast (time & location TBA)

We head out from Charlottetown, north on Hwy.#1 to the Confederation Bridge and once again crossover the Northumberland Straight on the 13km long bridge to New Brunswick. Travelling west on Hwy#16, we swing north on Hwy#15 to where we pick up the four- lane and then Hwy#15/11 west into Moncton. Rolling through Moncton we pick up Hwy.#2 west of the city a follow to Oromocto.

We then regroup for a parade to CFB Gagetown for a Military Ceremony. We get back on Hwy#2 and head north west to Fredericton.

Time permitting we will meet with the New Brunswick MRFD Chapter.

We stay the night in Fredericton New Brunswick .

Distance Travelled : 321 km

 

Some of the towns we will pass through, or close to on Day #5:

 

Bonshaw, DeSable, Crapaud, Melrose, Shemogue, Cap-Pele, Shediac, Steeves Mountain,Petitcodiac, Whites Cove, Jemseg, Upper Gagetown

If you are out and about, come give us a wave !

 

This wraps up the Atlantic Stage of the Motorcycle Ride for Dad Xth Anniversary Tour.

Over the last five days we’ve travelled 1884 Km, together and now we look north and west to the Quebec stage of our tour !

 

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