A 21-year-old university student from Winnipeg completed a cross-country journey on inline skates Saturday in Halifax.

Daniel Cloutier dipped his skates into the Atlantic Ocean at Point Pleasant Park at 1 p.m. Cloutier began his journey May 1 in Vancouver.

So far he's raised $40,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society.

Cloutier said he got the idea when ex-NHL player Sheldon Kennedy accomplished the same feat in 1998 to raise money for abused children.

"When he passed through Winnipeg I told myself there and then that I wanted to do that when I was older," he said.

He decided cancer would be his cause because he lost a 52-year-old uncle to the disease three years ago.

Cloutier rollerbladed 50 to 75 kilometres a day, arriving ahead of his original target of July 31.