Day: September 18, 2017

Sarah Jackson walking along The Great Trail in Canada. (Photo: Courtesy of Sarah Rose Daily)

First Woman To Trek The Great Trail Says, Big Lesson Learned ‘One Step At A Time’

Stopping at the edge of The Great Trail at the Atlantic Ocean in Cape Spear on the Avalon Peninsula near St. John’s Newfoundland, the easternmost point of Canada and North America, it was the end of a journey for Sarah Jackson.
One May 30, the 25-year old became the first woman to ever complete the 15,000 miles (24,000 kilometers) trek solo.

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Dianne Whelan, film-maker and adventurer, set out on her 500 Days in the Wild following the Trans Canada Trail, filming and blogging about it on the way. (Photo: Courtesy of Coast Reporter)

Award-Winning Documentarian Dianne Whelan’s Love Story To Canada

When award-winning adventure author and documentary filmmaker Dianne Whelan took her first steps on The Great Trail to begin filming her newest documentary, “500 Days in the Wild,” in July 2015, she never imagined that she would still be on the journey today.

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A deranged woman threw acid at four Boston College students in a train station in France (Photo: Courtesy of NY Daily News)

American Women Attacked With Acid In France

Four American college students studying abroad were attacked with acid thrown in their faces by an unknown French woman while they were returning to Paris at Marseille-Saint Charles train station September 17.

Firemen and police arrived immediately following the attack, according to media reports.

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