Alicia Korol, granddaughter of Taras and Dorothy Korol of Canora, recently dipped her toes in the Arctic Ocean at Tuktoyaktuk, in the Inuvik region of N.W.T. By visiting mile zero of the Trans Canada Trail, recently renamed the Great Trail, Alicia helped her grandfather complete his project of “visiting all three Oceans bordering Canada on the Great Trail.”
Alicia, presently the recreation director at Fort Smith, N.W.T., was a Grade 9 student when she entered Father Athol Murray College in Wilcox for Grades 10 to 12.
“The recreation provided at Wilcox prompted her to study recreational administration at the University of Alberta,” said Taras. “She acquired skills in kayaking, water rafting and other areas suitable for the Nunavut region of Canada.”
When she was assigned to the north, her grandfather asked her to complete the project he had started. Taras had touched the Pacific at Vancouver/Victoria and the Atlantic at St. John’s Newfoundland, but not the Arctic.
He joined the TransCanada Trail in 1995 and later sold trail certificates in Canora, Kamsack and Yorkton. He received a Trail Building Certificate in 1995, followed by a Trail Visionary Certificate and Parks Canada Discovery Pass in 2017.
“The legacy of the Trans Canada Trail was assured when it was renamed the Great Trail,” said Korol.
Canora participates in the Great Trail as the Whitesand Trans Canada Trail Association between Veregin and Good Spirit Lake. Names of supporters are listed at the Yorkton Pavilion.
