IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO GET TO POINT PELEE. The park is really only about three and a half hours from Toronto, but like most places you can’t get to without a car – and there’s far too …
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Hiking fall colours at Mountsberg Conservation Area
FALL COLOURS MEAN THE CLOCK IS TICKING ON THE YEAR, and that it’s time to enjoy green spaces before winter comes. In our family that means a Thanksgiving weekend trip on Parkbus to a destination an hour or three away …
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A Weekend Away: Port Elgin and Bruce County
ANYBODY WITHOUT THE MEANS TO OWN OR LUCK TO INHERIT A COTTAGE OR SUMMER PLACE probably knows about towns like Port Elgin, on the shores of Lake Huron on the edge of Ontario’s farm belt. While not strictly a summer …
Ghosts of Amusement Parks at Toronto’s Other Beach
TORONTO’S OTHER BEACH DOESN’T GET NEAR THE SAME ATTENTION AS ITS EASTERN ONE. Known definitively as “The Beach” or “The Beaches” depending on how old you are, the city’s eastern waterfront is picturesque, a long wide stretch of sand that …
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Above and Below the Fall Colours at Rattlesnake Point
THE BEST WAY TO ENJOY THE FALL COLOURS IS TO GET SOME ALTITUDE. Easy enough if you live in the mountains, or own a plane, but for those of us living in the alluvial plain that is Southern Ontario, that …
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