Ontario
A buddy of mine likes to fish. He likes to fish A LOT. He’s the kind of guy that will go out on the lake before the sun comes up, fish all day, and return home after dark. In the summer months, that’s a long time on the water, and during the short winter days, [...]
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Weekend hockey road trips are legendary in Canada. This post is by a 14 year old goalie. He and his hockey team, their coaches, and a bunch of hockey moms and dads recently traveled by bus five hours to Sudbury, Ontario for a weekend tournament. This is his story: Everyone arrives, unaware of what’s to [...]
The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960, opened at the Varley Art Gallery in Unionville, Ontario last week. It’s a fantastic tribute to Canada’s best known and original avant-garde artists. This is the group that paved the way for contemporary art in Canada. The group included Jean Paul Riopelle and Paul-Emile Borduas. From the Varley, the exhibit [...]
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Two of the creepiest places to spend Hallowe’en in Canada are Fort George in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, and the Atlas Coal Mine near Drumheller in the Canadian Badlands of Alberta. Niagara-on-the-Lake is said to be the most haunted town in Canada and the creepiest place in town is Fort George. Its Hallowe’en ghost tours are so [...]
Kensington Market is one of my favourite places in Toronto. I was there yesterday because of a recent Debra Black story in the Toronto Star. It talked about Solly, the son in Max & Son, a Kensington Market butcher shop. Yesterday was Sol’s last day. Max & Son, a fixture in Kensington for 54 years [...]
This is a bit of a different type of road story today but one I think is worth telling… A couple of years ago I paid five bucks for this amazing heritage grape vine at Parkdale Horticultural Society‘s annual Plant Fair. People line up for it every year. Our vine is growing like a weed [...]
I LOVE finding original old stores on our roadtrips across Canada and finding Ritchie’s in Brockville, Ontario, was like finding a pot of gold. Brockville is a small city (25,000) in the Thousands Islands, on the St. Lawrence River between the City of Kingston and the Quebec border. Like so many other communities that settled [...]
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Editor’s note: This year’s Elvis Fest runs July 21-24, 2011: We really just wanted to grab some lunch on our way home from Blue Mountain Resort, but we ended up taking in the opening salvos of the annual Elvis Festival in Collingwood, Ontario. When we asked at the Tourist Information Centre (right across from the [...]
We are working with Northumberland County again this year. The county, one hour east of Toronto is great for a day or short overnight trip from Canada’s largest city but it attracts visitors from all over. Eileen Lum at Northumberland Tourism took on a fabulous product tour and I thought I would blog about our [...]
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