By Steven Fouchard, Army Public Affairs
Prescott-Russell County, Ontario — Ex-Canadian Army (CA) member Victoria (Walsh) Lanthier is sharing her passion for health and the outdoors in the form of a self-published guide to hiking trails in the Ottawa region.
The guide is available via her website, girlgonegood.com. The retired Master Corporal is donating a portion of the proceeds to Boots on the Ground, a non-profit providing peer support to first responders, and the Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust, which protects habitats and wildlife in Lanark County, southwest of Ottawa.
Ms. Lanthier says she joined the CA in 1997 as a signal operator in part to find adventure. From her first deployment at age 20 as a UN Peacekeeper to East Timor with Operation TOUCAN, to a year-long stint as a member of the SkyHawks, the CA's precision skydiving team, she found it, and more, over her 14-year career.
“I'm using some serious skills from my time in the Army now,” she says, noting that a strong “tent routine” comes in particularly handy during longer excursions.
Ms. Lanthier established Girl Gone Good, a website focused on hiking and health, in 2011. She soon began receiving “an abundance of requests” from readers, friends, and colleagues for help in finding the region's best trails.
“I realized that because all trails are governed by either different levels of government or different private landowners, there's no one spot to go look for everything in Ottawa. So…
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