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Rotary Festival
Home with Mansard Roof
Gananoque, the small where I spent the last weekend heralds itself as “The Gateway to the Thousand Islands”, and I’ll take their word for it. One thing for sure they have some great old homes, many of which are huge, featuring beautiful cut stone and a surprising number of mansard roofs. I’ve never been overly fond of mansard roofs, but they seem to fit the
Hope Island Ferry
territory and they somehow begin to grow on you. Being it was Canada Day weekend the area was thriving with tourists and locals just out for a good time. The town park was set-up for weekend with the annual Rotary Arts & Crafts Show, complete with music, food, arts and crafts, and of course BEER!
After listing to some great, combination of country, folk and rock music and exploring the crafts I went motorcycle ride (having avoided the beer) to view some of the town’s great old homes and too just cruise the area.
Cruising took me to the ferry boat to Howe Island where after a ride around a small part of the island I returned back to Gananoque via another ferry boat landing (at no extra cost).
The Saint Lawrence Seaway is a great river and felt fortunate to have “miscued” and gotten off the main, traffic laden, four lane highways and onto H
ighway 2. Had it not been for the holiday weekend and the difficulty of finding an available campground I would have missed some great sites.
It’s now the morning July 4 (Happy 4th of July everyone!) and I’m just preparing to leave Quebec City; my next blog will applaud that great city.
About Jusrex
The same as my site - I am a work in progress. A divorced father of 5, retired and working to develop an internet career, that will allow me the freedom of choice to pursue other interests. In "past lives" I worked as a teacher (building trades)and an industrialist.
