A group which works to ensure the protection of land along the Bruce Trail has received a major donation.
Over the next ten years, the Patrick J. McNally Charitable Foundation is committing $2 million towards the purchase of land along the 890-kilometre corridor.
The gift is just the latest from the McNally family to the Bruce Trail Conservancy — which has preserved of over 11,000 acres since it started acquiring Niagara Escarpment lands in the 1970s.
Back in 2006, Patrick McNally donated his land and home to the Conservancy to ensure the Bruce Trail’s future in the rapidly developing Waterdown area.
McNally was a pioneering contractor, whose company specialized in road engineering and tunnelling and built the Jolley Cut. He passed away last year in Waterdown at the age of 101.
His foundation also recently made a major donation to the reconstruction of the tropical greenhouse at Gage Park.