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INUVIK - A pavilion with information about the Jimmy Adams Peace Trail has been erected at Boot Lake Park.

The pavilion was paid for by the Trans Canada Trail organization, which is a not-for-profit charity that helps promote the trail.

Josh McDonald helped install the display panels on the Trans Canada Trail Pavilion last Friday. The pavilion will show visitors a map of the Jimmy Adams Peace Trail, which is a section of the Trans Canada Trail. - Brodie Thomas/NNSL photo

Josh McDonald, recreation programmer with the Town of Inuvik, helped put the finishing touches on the pavilion last Friday. He and Troy Kasook bolted the information panels to the pavilion.

The display contains information about the Trans Canada Trail, a map of the Jimmy Adams Peace Trail, and the names of people who contributed $50 to "buy" a metre of the trail.

"They raised enough money to get that pavilion installed," said McDonald.

The structure itself was constructed in Hay River and brought up on the barge.

A company in Hay River built two identical pavilions at the same time: one for Hay River's section of the Trans Canada Trail and one for Inuvik.

Tundra Drilling drilled the pilings and Millennium Construction put the main structure up.

"We did the finishing touches on it," said McDonald.

He said Parks Canada helped create the map for the display from an aerial photo. McDonald walked the trail with a GPS and parks staff used computer software to overlay the trail onto an aerial photo.

McDonald said there wasn't much work done on the Jimmy Adams Peace Trail this summer because of Inuvik's 50th anniversary celebrations. Next summer there are plans to lay more gravel and put down grass seed at the park near the Lions Club.

The trail is named after former Inuvik resident Jimmy Adams, who used to have a trap line along what is now the trail. The small blue cabin at the corner of Boot Lake Road and Duck Lake Street once belonged to Adams.

"Not many people know why that cabin is there," said McDonald.

That is something he hopes to change. He said he hopes to have other interpretive displays printed and placed along the trail. Besides explaining the purpose of the cabin, the displays would help identify the many plants and animals along the trail and explain their traditional uses.