Ontario Hotels

On Jan 22, 9:48*pm, (Ed Treijs) wrote:
In article ,

Lee wrote:
For your planning convenience, note that the first Monday in September
(this year, Sep. 1) is a holiday and therefore a busy travel day.

For your searching convenience, note that Niagara has three A's, like
Canada.

Thanks for the advice. Is it only the 1st Sep that's a holiday i.e.
everyone back to work/school on the 2nd? In which case I will arrive
31st, stay in Toronto 1st and 2nd and drive to Niagara Falls on 3rd.

That's sensible. *There's plenty to do in Toronto on the Labour Day weekend,
and holiday traffic will be bad.

Saturday mornings you may be interested in visiting St. Lawrence Market to see
the fresh fruits and vegetables available from local sources. *Peaches, plums,
grapes, carrots, beets, blueberries, etc. *However, on Sunday it's an antiques
market.

I recommend that you visit the Canadian National Exhibition. The Air Show is
on during Labour Day weekend and if you have an interest in this sort of thing,
it's basically included with your CNE admission.

Make sure you visit the CN tower in the afternoon, so you see the view by day
and then by night.

Where abouts do you live? Toronto itself or on the outskirts? We're
actually having our honeymoon there as a bit of a reconnaissance
because we hope to emigrate to Canada in a few years. We're actually
keen on Ottawa and are thinking somewhere between there and Toronto.
We'd like to see some of the smaller towns as well as the big cities
during our visit. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me a bit about
the place.

Peterborough and Kingston are the biggest cities between Toronto and Ottawa.
Peterborough has a lot of manufacturing and a university, while Kingston is
more of a government plus university town. *Smaller cities include Belleville
and Trenton. *There are plenty of smaller towns that were settled back in the
1800s which time has mostly forgot, but I'm not sure that you would want to
settle in the more isolated ones. Belleville and Trenton are somewhat
bilingual, Kingston less so, and Peterborough almost not at all as far as I
have noticed.

A lot of the countryside between Toronto and Ottawa is on the rocky, swampy
Canadian Shield. Some of it is rolling glacial topography of moraines and
drumlins. Plus there's the Lake Ontario shoreline which has a lot of small
towns and cities strung along it. *Almost all date from pioneer days, some back
to the United Empire Loyalists in the late 1700s.

Note that the strip between Toronto and Ottawa is 400 km long and 50-60 km
so that's a lot of territory. *Your reconnaissance will be pretty preliminary.

Thanks for your post, very informative. I appreciate my first visit
will be very preliminary but you have to start somewhere. We'd like to
see some of the major cities and get a feel for the country during our
first visit (traditions and culture, beauty, the people and that sort
of thing) and whilst driving between places we will stop off and have
a look at some of the smaller places and take in some of the
countryside. Just that corridor between Toronto and Ottawa, maybe
stretching to Montreal, is not much smaller than the UK (and a lot
less populated!).