Olympic torch hops north for the day
Source: CBC News
Posted: 11/03/09 1:19PM
Filed Under: Canada
The Olympic torch is making a jump north on the fifth day of the 106-day cross-Canada relay, hopscotching from Vancouver Island to Haida Gwaii, then to the Yukon and back to northern B.C.
Stops were planned Tuesday at Sandspit, Skidegate and Queen Charlotte City on Haida Gwaii, also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, before the flame was to board a plane for visits to Whitehorse and Kwanlin Dun in the Yukon. Runners were also carrying the torch in Taku River Tlingit territory in the Yukon before wrapping up the day in Atlin, at the extreme northwestern corner of B.C.
The 45,000-kilometre relay began Friday in Victoria and will end Feb. 12 at the opening of the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
Later in the relay, the torch will head northward again to Alert, Nunavut, which claims to be the northernmost permanently inhabited community in the world.
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