by sentierschelseatrails | Sep 14, 2016 | Trail Projects
The trail building in the area encircled by Old Chelsea, the 105, and Scott is a good example of the spirit and vision of Chelsea Trails.
This ‘triangle’ contains two elementary schools, the Meredith Centre, and many homes and municipal green spaces. But right now, in many cases, a child living 500 metres from their school can’t walk or bike there. This is particularly true if the only entrance to a home or street is off of the 105, on which children are not allowed to ride their bikes (since the speed limit for cars is 70km/hr).
Marc Desjardins, the SCT Sector Champion for this area, hopes to change all that. (more…)
by sentierschelseatrails | Aug 28, 2016 | Members & Volunteers
Chelsea Trails is once again partnering with the Gatineau Valley Historical Society on a third set of interpretive panels along the railway corridor featuring scenes from Chelsea’s past. The previous two years have seen the installation of a series of historical panels along the railway in the Kirk’s Ferry/Larrimac and Cascades sectors. This year, new panels will highlight the Mill Road area, including the site of the former Chelsea train station, the original English Chelsea Elementary School building and the former section foreman’s house.
Featured here, former Chelsea Elementary students, RJ Hughes and Harold Reid located the sites, while Chelsea Trails Alain Piché marked the placing of the posts for the panels and GVHS rep Louise Schwartz looked on. Photo credit: Heidi von Graevenitz.
by sentierschelseatrails | Aug 6, 2016 | Trail Projects
Once again, volunteers are busy building trails for the benefit of the community!
The major work this summer is on the Chelsea Park Trail, which runs from Ch. du Manoir to Route 105 (behind Ben’s Towing). Coordinated by Marc Desjardins, this roughly 1km trail features a beautiful 14 meter bridge and one more to come this fall – the result of many, many hours of volunteer building effort! It’s designed for travel on foot only – not bikes – to respect the wishes of adjacent homeowners. (more…)
by sentierschelseatrails | Jun 16, 2016 | Railway Transformation
More than 
100 residents packed into the Cascades Club last night to hear about the opportunities and benefits of turning Chelsea’s railway corridor into a year round, multi-purpose trail. The meeting was organized by Chelsea Rails 2 Trails, a newly formed group seeking to provide information and mobilize support for the rails to trails project under consideration by the Municipality. If you missed last night’s meeting, you can take a look at the presentation.
by sentierschelseatrails | May 23, 2016 | Trail Events
Come join Chelsea Trails on their Annual Hike through the Centre Village, Hendick Farm and along Chelsea Creek. Meet at Visitors Centre at 10 am, Sunday June 5.
by sentierschelseatrails | May 3, 2016 | Trail Events
In case you missed it, here’s Karl Saidla’s presentation : Walking, cycling, and taking the bus: smart choices for Chelsea. Can we make them EASY choices?
Karl lives on Dunn Road in Chelsea with his his wife Megan McTavish and two-year old daughter Leena and they enjoy walking, cycling, and riding the bus whenever it is possible. (more…)
by sentierschelseatrails | Apr 27, 2016 | Railway Transformation
At the Sentiers Chelsea Trails AGM, which was held April 25, attendees welcomed many of the new Chelsea Trail Ambassadors who are speaking up to support the transformation of the railway corridor into a multi-use, non-motorized, year-round community trail. These prominent Chelsea residents and community leaders want to lend their names and contribute to the future of this community-building project.
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by sentierschelseatrails | Apr 8, 2016 | Trail Events
Dear SCT members and friends,
You are invited to attend Sentiers Chelsea Trails’s annual general meeting on Monday, April 25th, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., at the Mill Road Community Space, 8 Mill Road, Chelsea.
As well as the business meeting, there will be a presentation on SCT’s activities of the past year and a presentation by Karl Saidla, Chelsea resident and active transport expert on active transport choices for Chelsea.
Board vacancy: There is one vacancy on the SCT board of directors coming up and we invite you to consider submitting your candidacy. If you are interested in joining the board, please send a brief note outlining why you would like to serve on the board, your expertise and experience by April 10th, 2016 to Roberta Walker at [email protected].
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by sentierschelseatrails | Feb 29, 2016 | Trail Events
3rd Annual Celebration of the Chelsea Winter Community Trail
On Sunday, February 21st, approximately 300 parents, children, friends and neighbours came out to the Chelsea Ski and Snowshoe Challenge at the Third Annual Chelsea Winter Community Trail Celebration. For the 10th anniversary of the Winter Trail, the event added a pick up and drop off shuttle bus service to parking stops along the expanded 18 kilometres of freshly groomed trail. And there were “sweet stops” set up along the trail offering cups of hot chocolate and generous amounts of pastries donated by Les Fougères and Une Boulangerie dans un village to fuel the skiers, snowshoers and walkers on their journey.
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by sentierschelseatrails | Feb 9, 2016 | Railway Transformation
As many of you know, Chelsea Trails supports transforming the railway corridor into a linear park. This unique corridor of land, belonging to Chelsea, runs the entire length of the municipality alongside a beautiful river, and connects numerous neighbourhoods. It has been used by Chelsea residents for 10 years as a very popular Winter Community Trail, and we believe there would be great benefits if it were expanded for year around use. (more…)
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