7/30/11 - 8/3/11 The locks along the Trent-Severn Canal are often remote. Several that we went through have no roads leading to them and are only accessible by water for the operators. As we are nearing Lake Huron we seem to be seeing more cottages along the shore some modest and others large and ornate but always with a dock and boat(s). Our luck didn't hold very long. The three month old pump that transferred fresh water to the faucets quit and we were forced to go a little out of our way to Barrie, ON to get a new one. The Confetti holds 250 gallons of water but it is inaccessible without the pump. On the way to Barrie we passed quite an impressive home with it's own helicopter and we were later told that it belongs to the Swanson family (of Swanson dinner fame). Barrie has both bus and rail service to Toronto so after installing a new pump we took the bus in. Toronto is an impressive town. It reminded us of New York city in a lot of ways. We saw new and impressive architecture growing out of very old surroundings. It has the Ice Hockey Hall of Fame which we didn't go into because we don't know the second thing about hockey (everyone knows the first thing: missing teeth). It obviously has a vibrant business community, the Toronto Stock Exchange is there, and even a smaller version of Times Square with ten story television screens. We walked until we couldn't walk any more on pink granite sidewalks and then went to the train station and did a crossword puzzle until the "GO" (Government of Ontario) train came to take us back to Barrie. The next day we were off again with still more locks to pass through before we reached Georgian Bay in northern Lake Huron.
7/30/11 - 8/3/11 The locks along the Trent-Severn Canal are often remote. Several that we went through have no roads leading to them and are only accessible by water for the operators. As we are nearing Lake Huron we seem to be seeing more cottages along the shore some modest and others large and ornate but always with a dock and boat(s). Our luck didn't hold very long. The three month old pump that transferred fresh water to the faucets quit and we were forced to go a little out of our way to Barrie, ON to get a new one. The Confetti holds 250 gallons of water but it is inaccessible without the pump. On the way to Barrie we passed quite an impressive home with it's own helicopter and we were later told that it belongs to the Swanson family (of Swanson dinner fame). Barrie has both bus and rail service to Toronto so after installing a new pump we took the bus in. Toronto is an impressive town. It reminded us of New York city in a lot of ways. We saw new and impressive architecture growing out of very old surroundings. It has the Ice Hockey Hall of Fame which we didn't go into because we don't know the second thing about hockey (everyone knows the first thing: missing teeth). It obviously has a vibrant business community, the Toronto Stock Exchange is there, and even a smaller version of Times Square with ten story television screens. We walked until we couldn't walk any more on pink granite sidewalks and then went to the train station and did a crossword puzzle until the "GO" (Government of Ontario) train came to take us back to Barrie. The next day we were off again with still more locks to pass through before we reached Georgian Bay in northern Lake Huron.
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