A 1-hour flight from New York. Another source is Albert Fulton at Island Archives, tel. Lewis-Matravers says that staying there and keeping company with McFarlane and Jeannie Parker, who also lives in the house, was great. At last count there were 261 homes, some 650 people, plus assorted dogs and cats, all living happily on 21 acres of land on Ward's and Algonquin Islands. There are no cars on-island.
Locals get around by bicycle.
WHAT'S TO EAT Choices are limited. The Queen City Yacht Club offers meals during the summer season, but a member must host you. There are several restaurants located in the public park section, as well as the usual snack vendors. One of the main characters in The Robber Bride, by Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood lives on the Toronto Islands, and Atwood sketches a recognizably quirky portrait of the community as it was in the 1970s. The new book, A Magical Place, by islander Bill Freeman, is a short history of the island, up to the present.