Vancouver, BC, April 14, 2009, - Trade Winds Ventures Inc. (TSX-V: TWD, FSE: TVR) ("Trade Winds" or the "Company") is pleased to report that it has entered into a comprehensive Joint Venture Agreement with Detour Gold Corporation (TSX: DGC) for the 50/50 joint venture Block A property located in Northern Ontario.

The new agreement formalizes the operating relationship between the parties, which was previously governed by a binding Letter of Intent, assigned to Detour Gold in January, 2007.

Block A is located west of Detour Gold's wholly owned Detour Lake gold project and east of Trade Winds' adjacent wholly owned Gowest property, approximately 180 kilometres northeast of Cochrane, Ontario. The gold mineralized M Zone structural corridor runs west from Detour Gold's property across Block A onto the Gowest property, with a total strike length of over 4.6 kilometres. Block A has been the subject of an on-going exploration program operated by Trade Winds since late 2003, and includes a total of 602 diamond drill holes, comprising 114,951 metres of drilling completed by Trade Winds during the period 2003 to 2007 and 112,464 metres of drilling completed previously by Placer Dome and other operators.

A National Instrument 43-101 resource estimate was completed by Golder Associates Ltd. in December, 2006. A new independent mineral resource estimate by Watts, Griffis and McOuat Limited ("WGM"), Consulting Geologists and Engineers of Toronto, Canada, compliant with National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects is currently under review by the Joint Venture partners, and which will be published upon completion of the review.

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