Too Square to be Hip
A narcissist's guide to travel and culture
This pretty northern railway town along the shores of Lake Nippising is always a lovely stopoff. Although long removed from its glory days, this important crossroads where Samuel de Champlain once canoed, and fur traders sailed down Lake Nippising to the Georgian Bay via the French River, still holds a surprising charm although it is …
Lacing up my shoes in the Mono Cliffs parking lot I listened to these two annoying girls from Toronto, talking about how badly labelled the park signage was. This was to my contentment as the Mono Cliffs mapping and signage is very well executed. Typical of some of the less experience hikers coming from the …
At the northern extent of Grey County, not far from the town of Owen Sound, you will find one of Ontario’s premier waterfalls, that of Eugenia Falls. Located in the Beaver Valley (part of the same system as Old Baldy), the falls are an extension of the Beaver River that runs through the area. This …
Northern Ontario can be breathtaking, yet only a fraction of Canadians get to experience its unparalleled beauty, and most of those people are hunters and anglers – men and women used to the remote nature of the land of endless lakes and thick impenetrable forests. It is on one of these trips north that I …
Welcome to the northern terminus of Lake Temiskaming. In this post we examine a little section of Lake Temiskaming, specifically the town of New Liskeard, and it’s rich heritage as well as the natural beauty that surrounds it. No longer is this corner of Ontario reserved for mining, today the area is a hub for …
Deep into the northern extremity of of Algonquin Park, where access is not provided by the paved asphalt comforts of Highway 60, lies a region of a distinct natural beauty. Accessed via an active gravel logging road, it is much less crowded, yet just as worth seeing. This article is a stub of the much …
Perhaps the most famous of Canada’s Rocky Mountain glacier lakes, the one-two combo of Lake Louise and Moraine Lake still leaves visitors in shock, just as they did the early Rocky mountain explorers. Their piercing emerald colour and pleasant backdrops have been the muse of painters and landscape photographers alike. In this post I will …
Big Joe Mufferaw paddled into Mattawa All the way from Ottawa in just one day Big Joe Mufferaw, Stompin’ Tom Connors The above chunk of lyric was taken from the Stompin’ Tom Conners song Big Joe Mufferaw, about the legendary French Canadian folk hero Joseph Montferrand – a man with a connection to the Ottawa …
A shot rings out, and a man lies dead near the shore of the Tay River… a gentleman’s face-off gone wrong. Welcome to the home of the last duel! Historic Perth, a once important center of Eastern Ontario, is a city almost entirely composed of Scottish crafted Ottawa Valley limestone. Within its ancient confines one …
Located in the heart of south eastern Ontario, the radiant charm of rural Prince Edward County is a sight to behold. It’s well developed tourism industry, culinary standing and laid back attitude have attracted the eye of outsiders and in recent years Prince Edward County’s tourism industry has taken off. As wealthy Torontonians have displaced …
