Ride for Dad Across Canada
The 10th Anniversary Motorcycle Ride for Dad’s Celebration Tour is a once-in-a-lifetime national event that links the Military Families Fund and Motorcycle Ride for Dad, a grass-roots national movement of people who have a shared passion for motorcycling and prostate cancer awareness.
Starting in windswept St. John’s Newfoundland on August 1st and finishing in Victoria on August 29th, an Army of Chrome and leather will weave its way through the Canadian heartland spreading the twin messages of Prostate Cancer awareness and Support for our Troops.
Some riders will be doing the whole trip, some will join for the local segment.
The Mountain Stage is the seventh and final stage of the Tour across Canada to celebrate the Motorcycle Ride for Dad’s ten year fight against prostate cancer.
A Tour that also highlighted the support of all Canadians for our troops.
It begins in Edmonton.
Before they tackle the mountains, they will leave Edmonton, the City of Champions and head straight south to the Stampede City, Calgary.
They will meet with our Calgary Chapter before heading on to Banff for the night.
The Mountain Stage is 8 days of what arguably could be the most beautiful scenery in Canada.
They head into the foothills from Calgary, and swing north west through Banff and the famous Lake Louise before heading west into the Rogers Pass through the Selkirk Mountains to Revelstoke.
They turn south and follow the course of the beautiful Columbia River, crossing Upper Arrow Lake on a ferry and swinging south east across the Central Kootneys to the Slocan River valley and on to Nelson.
They travel further south and west across the top of the US border before swing back north up the West Kettle River valley to Kelowna and a meet with the Okanagan Chapter.
They travel north up the Okanagan valley to rejoin Hwy.#1 at Salmon Arm and a swing west into Kamloops.
Leaving Kamloops traveling west they swing south down the Thompson & Fraser River Valleys to Hope, and then south west to Chilliwack for a lunchtime meet with the Westcoast Chapter.
They continue west from there to Delta.
On the last day they head north from Delta through Vancouver to the ferry at Horseshoe Bay, and crossing to Vancouver Island at Nanaimo.
Finally they travel south down the island on Hwy.#1 Langford and a parade into CFB Esquimalt for the End of Tour Celebration.
Hockey ikon Don Cherry and retired General Rick Hillier are co-chairs of the ride.
Donate at www.ridefordadcanada.org
