Our Team

Eastwind Cycle Team

Eastwind Cycle brings a skill set to this project based on 15 years in the bicycle touring industry in Atlantic Canada. Our experience in tour development and operation gives us an insider’s perspective on the requirements of touring cyclists. As avid riders and velo- commuters we have a hands-on understanding of the issues facing those who ride every day as a means of transportation. We have developed an expertise specific to bikeways infrastructure design and will also draw on our experience in the non profit and advocacy sector to act as catalysts in creating and extending a network of safe and cohesive cycling routes throughout Atlantic Canada. We are committed to increasing cycling safety, experiential tourism and community involvement in active transportation and recreational cycling. Increasingly, sustainable tourism and active transportation are becoming integral parts of community economic development and community health strategic planning. Ensuring that such initiatives are well planned and supported by the community is key to the success of bicycle route development. To that end, we are interested in partnering with local tourism and business associations and recreation departments to facilitate implementation of improved safety and cycling infrastructure.

Peter Williams

Peter Williams is owner and operator of Eastwind Cycle and has operated cycling tours in Atlantic Canada for 15 years. Peter has developed tours for American companies, guided in Canada and Mexico, and developed day trips for cruise ship companies with on the ground delivery in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Peter has produced cycling route maps for New Brunswick Tourism. Upon relocation from New Brunswick to Nova Scotia in 2005, Peter was appointed to the Halifax Regional Municipality Bikeways Advisory Committee. Peter and his wife Jude, ran a successful restaurant in Sussex, New Brunswick for 20 years. He understands the importance of good service and a gracious welcome. Peter’s visit to Quebec in 2005, where he was developing a bicycle tour, inspired him to get the ball rolling in Nova Scotia, where we have some of the best cycling in the world.

Susanna Fuller

Susanna has a strong background in research, proposal development, budgeting, report writing and project implementation. In 2000, Susanna was a founding member of the Bike Again Community Project, which repairs donated bicycles and provides them to community groups and individuals who are committed to using them as primary modes of transportation. She has been involved in organizing Dalhousie University’s School of Planning annual conferences. Susanna has lead bicycle tours with Eastwind Cycle for the past several years, and is committed to putting Nova Scotia on the map as a cyclist destination. She is a dedicated commuter cyclist, and has been involved in several active transportation initiatives in Halifax, New York and Montreal. While not riding her bicycle, Susanna is completing her PhD. in Biology at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

Ed Glover

Ed Glover is a Geomatics Technologist with 6 years of experience in the forestry department at Nova Scotia Power Inc. He graduated in 2000 with a BSc Foresty, Computer Apps Minor, University of New Brunswick. He attended the Centre of Geographic Sciences from 2001-2002 and received diplomas in Advanced Geographic Information Systems and Applied Geomatics Research. He was awarded by the Geomatics Association of Nova Scotia for contributing significantly to the community for the creation of a Nova Scotia wind atlas.

Some of his research can be found at: http://agrg.cogsnscc.ca/publications/reports/nswea/

Jesse Wiliams

Jesse has designed and led many tours in the region, including Cape Breton and Quebec.He has a BSC from McGill University 1994. He is also a web designer/programmer and his work has played an important part in the promotion and marketing of bicycle destinations.