La Tribune, Sherbrooke, Saturday August 1st 1998 A9
4000 km by cycle for the mental illness

Photo La Tribune, Jean-François Gagnon

Serge Bourassa-Lacombe undertake in this first of August 1998 a periplus which bring him to cross some 4000 kilometers by bicycle, in the current of the following weeks. This periplus will permit him to specially to amass funds to struggle against the mental illness.

Jean-François GAGNON Coaticook

 

Serge Bourassa-Lacombe, a human being rather singular, undertakes today a periplus which will bring him to cross 4 000 km by bicycle during the current following weeks. The man who lawsuying the Centre universitaire de santé de l'Estrie in front of the tribunal, for bad treatments, aim to amass funds, during his periplus.  Those wile help him to continue his struggle against the Hospital Center and elsewhere to help the cause odd the mental illness people.  «I will stop every where to distribute my business cards and my tracts, during my trip», he emphasize.

A long «stroll»

The man of around forty years old start his long tour at Lennoxville.  From their, he will rally Cooper, in Maine, where it's waiting, at some friends, his mount on two wheels. Then on in engine, he will go towards the Maritimes provinces, where he intend specially to stop in  the town of Fredericton, St-John, Moncton, Charlottetown and others… When he'll be in New Foundland, he will cross, by ferry boat, until the North Coast. Afterwards, he will arrive at Quebec, where he will go to the Parliament, to deposit certain documents.  After what he will roll until Coaticook, none without to take a leap to Montreal.

In the hands of the destiny

A little to prove that the man is all in fact singular, mention that he doesn't know really where he will sleep overnight each night, all a long his adventure.  It seem that he will relay to the destiny and to the good fortune. «I will have with me a tent and will be able to establish me anywhere»,  he maintain with all simplicity. To drag his baggage, Bourassa-Lacombe, will pull a light carrier made to go on the back of a bicycle. «With everything that I will having with me, I will keep normally a average speed of 10 kilometres per hour». The limit, it's that in spite of this average speed enough low and his desire to stop everywhere, the man think to have the capacity to realize his distance in 40 days.   It will be necessary therefore to pedal long hours each day.  Nevertheless, this seem to be the last of his cares. Serge Bourassa-Lacombe won't be at his first long «excursion» by bicycle.  In 1995-96, he had been ramble like this, on his bicycle, a cross the Quebec and, the United-States.  In almost 400 days, he had made around 10 000 kilometres. At that time, his periplus had him, among others, lead in until Florida and in the region of Atlanta.  He was passing across moreover in this last mentioned at the moment of where the Olympic Games was in full swing, during the summer 1996.

Important Update ! My departure was well executed on Saturday August first 1998, however Sunday during the evening at the border of Coburn Gore (Me) they didn't let me enter to the UNITED-STATES.  The morning after, so be it, August third. I went to the Custom House of Pittsburd (NH) where A. Coats of the U.S. Custom ask me to return to Coburn Gore to encounter Mister Gregory Pease American Immigration Officer.  After 90 minutes of talking I came to the evidence that I won't be able to do this trip with my bicycle.  So I came back to my starting point and in less then 24 hours I had founded what I needed to travel through 4 800 km in Canada  Eastern. See here my itinerary : starting with Quebec : Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Granby, St-Hubert, Longueuil, Brossard, La Prairie, St-Constant, Ville Ste-Catherine, Montreal, Louiseville, St-Barnabé-nord, St-Boniface, Shawinigan, St-Georges de Champlain, Cap-de-la-Madelaine, Porneuf, Quebec the Capital, Lévis, Montmagny, St-Jean-Port-Joli, La Pocatière, Kamouraska, Rivière-du-Loup, Rimouski,   Matane, Godbout, Sept-Îles, Havre St-Pierre, Aguanish, Natasquan and Blanc Sablon then by ferry boat until New-Fundland : St-Barbe, Portland Creek, Deer Lake, Grand Falls, Grander, Port Blandford, Holyrood, St-John's the capital, Dunville, Argentia then by ferry boat until  Nova Scotia : Sydney Mines, Sydney, Port Hawkesbury, Port Hastings, Auld Cove, Heatherton, Antigonish, Liscomb, Port Dufferin, Musquodubois Harbour, Dartmouth, Halifax the Capital, Bedford, Waverley, Truro, Pictou then by ferry boat until Prince Edward Island : Wood Islands, Charlottetown the Capital, Cornwall, Borden and then the Confederation Bridge until New-Brunswick : Cape Tormentine, Shediac, Moncton, Sussex, Hampton, Saint-John, St-Stephven, Fredericton the Capital, Woodstock, Grand Falls, St-Léonard, Edmonston and back to Quebec : Lévis, St-Henri, Scott, Ste-Marie, Vallée-Junction, Thetford Mines, East Angus, Cookshire, Lennoxville, Compton to ending to Coaticook. In all more than 400 towns will be travel through in forty days.

«Obey to JESUS-CHRIST to obtain ETERNAL SALVATION» (Hebrew 5,9)

Martin Côté owner of Sun Design, Magog (Quebec) and Sun Plus, Montreal (Quebec) know me since 1984, he had supplied a pair of sunglass Solitary by Bollé.  Bollé had recognized the genius who live with me since the beginning.

Éric Nutbrown, 103 Oxford Crescent app.105, Lennoxville (Quebec) J1M 1P6 a friend since Spring  1991 had loaned me his bicycle.

Patrick Brunet owner of Tune-Ups ! 7, rue Dépot, Lennoxville (Quebec)  J1M 1S7 (819) 566-8217 had supplied all the accessories that he can.   He knows me since one week.

Claude Chabot owner of Sale, Exchange and Repair Claude Chabot, 400, rue Beaudoin Cookshire (Quebec) J0B 1M0(819) 875-3489 had supplied a Axxiom trailer.  He knows me since August 1st 1998.

Vincent Renaud prop. Ski Vélo, 49, rue Sherbrooke, Magog (Quebec) J1X 2R3 Tel. : (819) 843-4277, fax. : (819) 843-7627 have repair my odometer.   He doesn't knows me at all.

Ken Clark prop. Brault bicycles and sports, 157 rue Lewis, C.P. 368, Waterloo (Quebec) J0E 2N0 tel. : (514)539-3349, cell. :  (514) 776-5600, Fax. : (514) 539-0925 have replace my rear wheel because it became marginal.  He doesn't knows me at all.

Nicole for Yves Roger owner VÉLO GARE, 71, rue Denison est, Granby (Quebec) J2G 4C7 (514) 777-4438 have supplied a seat post longer.  Nicole was remembered to have encounter me at the Summer 1995 in direction of Florida.

«Obtain Justice to defeat the mental illness»
Amen !  For the Glory of GOD ! and the SALVATION of people !