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When the last track of the Confederation Trail was laid in 2000, P.E.I. became the first province to complete its section of the Trans Canada Trail. The cross-country route, built for walking, biking, horseback riding, skiing and snowmobiling, will eventually span more than 18,000 kilometres and cut through every province and territory when it is completed in 2010. It will be more than twice the length of the highway that shares its name, and include water routes in Alberta (map) and the Northwest Territories (map).

Like the P.E.I. portion, much of the Trans Canada Trail will be built over abandoned railway lines and existing trails. The rest is being funded largely through donations in $50 increments to symbolically purchase a metre of trail.

In 2003, two Australian tourists cycled for 112 days and nearly 10,000 kilometres to travel from Victoria (map) to St. John's (map). And this past summer, Albertans marked their province's centenary by participating in the Trans Canada Trail Centennial Relay, traveling more than 1,000 kilometres from Edmonton (map) to Regina (map).