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By carfour
July 7th 2008

Off to Papineau Lake

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So pretty early on Thursday I get this email from my friend Sue which pretty much says something like this ... sorry for the short notice but do you want to come to the cottage this weekend? I ponder for all of two minutes and think that either I can stay home, go biking, do laundry, ironing and other chores, read up on Madrid and generally lay low OR I could get in a car, head to a cottage, catch some rays and relax with (knowing Sue) a cold drink and generally melt away any stress and anxiety in my life. [View Full Entry]

By JayesJaunts
July 1st 2008

29th June 2008

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Red squirrel

29th June 2008 This morning it was still a bit cloudy but it had stopped raining. Amy starting the morning with a run whilst Dinah went for a walk (with camera of course). We had to start collecting our things together and packing for the next leg of our travels. Amy took off kayaking with Jaqueline on Paint Lake, and after an hour or so of sitting in the sun on the deck and watching the chipmunks and the humming birds we decided that we should go out in the motor boat to look for them. We then sat down to [View Full Entry]

By lizzieday
June 30th 2008

Algonquin Provincial Park

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Decided this place deserved a blog of it's own. The nicest bit of Canada I've seen. That includes all the spectacular snow capped peaks of the Rockies. May just be because the area is not well known so no one else goes. Wilderness much more fun when it's empty. Had Luxury acommodation (own room, practically empty hostel so bathroom, kitchen and lounge to ourselves) and amazing host. Took us on a tour of the area in his car, 3 hikes plus a fascinating visitors centre and art gallery. Stopped to look at a couple of moose by the side of the [View Full Entry]

By Mel and Nige
June 25th 2008

June 25-27 - Algonquin Provincial Park

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We arrived at the park at the East Gate and went straight to the visitor’s center. The nice girl there set us off to do some cool camping in the interior of the park and have a canoe delivered to us to go to our camping site (you can only access these campgrounds by canoe)….unfortunately, the girl at the information center gave us the wrong information and couldn’t get our canoe delivered, which means, we couldn’t do the interior camping. Bummer! ☹ We were a little bit discouraged by this because we had wasted a lot of our time to arrange [View Full Entry]

By Traveladdict
October 5th 2006

Canoes and Jails

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The colours of Algonquin

Algonquin Provincial Park Ater stopping at the Flying Saucer Diner in Niagara (well we were in North America!) we made our way to one of the wineries that the region is famous for to try the local speciality - ice wine (all in the name of culture of course!) They make it in the winter when the grapes are actually frozen and as a result is really sweet. Then it was our half way stop at a place called Bracebridge famous for their bean salad apparently. We made it to the Wolf Den hostel just outside Algonquin National Park in the [View Full Entry]

By Kcaj
July 7th 2006

Goderich - Family Roots Day

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I had a successfull, although long, day. It took sometime and trips to the library, the Land Registry Office, and Knox Presbyterian Church, but I found where my Dad use to live in Goderich. The thing that made it tough was that, back in the time of the 1911 Census, there were no street addresses. However, I did find that he lived on St. Vincent and that street is only on block long. A very nice lady in the Land office pulled out the right book and I found the particular plot. Referencing that to a present map pinpointed the house. [View Full Entry]

By Guvincanada
October 17th 2005

The Subtle Differences.

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Chad
Well Chad you were certainly teling the truth when you said that "your place needed a coat of paint but has lots of charecteur in spite of this".

The Canadian summer was a lovely affair what with the late dusks, high 20's, bbq's on chad's/"our" 12th floor balcony overlooking Lake Ontario and the city lights with a bottle of Alaxander Keiths (no v.b. or Carlton over here boys and girls) assuming the position. Chad's unit is in a leafy suburb called Mississauga pronounced "miss-iss-sar-gwar",which is situated at least 15 mins away from where all of the gang related turf war shootings happen, which is nice ! Mississauga is located in between Toronto and Brampton, 25 mins by freeway to either. Brampton has a population of 400,000 and [View Full Entry]

By Ben K
September 25th 2005

Canadian Wilderness at its best!!

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Defying gravity?

Hope you are not sick of me by now, but I just have to let u all know how much fun im having and how beautiful this place was. This time the place was algonquin national park, a majestic and absolutely stunning area that pretty much symbolises canada in mind. Its hard to explain to u all how amazing this place actually is, i wouldn't know where to start. First there is the crisp clean air, the flamming colours of maple forests in fall, the many beautiful lakes, the diverse wildlife (although we didn't get to see a bear......damm), the untouched [View Full Entry]

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