Evening star., 1940-06-02
Empire Of Wafer
And Isles Ready for
1910 Rediscovery
Province Of Ontario
Known for Beauty and
Boating Facilities

TORONTO, June Ontario.
where the paddle and the quill
wrote early North American his
tory through a sweeping wilderness
of interlocking water trails, will
again this summer have its water
empire rediscovered from steamer
decks, yachts, sailboats, motor
launches and canoes.
The vacationist can view Ontario
through the eyes Of mariner, with
his diary a logbook recording the
sweeping romance of magnificent
lakes, rivers, straits and indented
bays, as the Great Lakes bounda-
ries with the st. Lawrence and
Ottawa Rivers make the province
virtually an island with a water
area greater than the size of the
British Isles. Added to its kingdom
of waterways are the canals from
which the Great Lakes go to the sea.
creating the quaint canal towns
with an atmosphere akin to old
time coaching days, and the water
gate" and water street" crowds ever
remindful of here comes the mules"
and here comes the news" before
the age of steam.
Old Field Stone Houses.
In rural Ontario are the quaint
old field-stone houses, recalling the
spirit of pioneer days when the
province was Canadas real West.
Atmosphere and story seem to radi-
ate from the windows where within
are the hand-loomed woven carpets,
piece-patterned bedquilts and old
English and Colonial furniture. En-
tering Canada from the Niagara
Falls district, which is one of the
"a bridge or ferry links between
Ontario and the United States, are
the shorelined bays of the Niagara
Peninsula washed by Lake Ontario
and Lake Erie.
A short distance north of Toronto,
famed as the clear sky region" by
its elevation of 1000 feet, are the
300 lakes and 400 islands of the
Muskoka lakes, known as the Eng
nsh lake district of Canada" bv
its beauty and boating activities
fine hotels and resorts. Numerous
rivers feed the lake chain with
steamer transportation linking the
Lakes of Muskoka, Joseph and Ros-
seau. Directly northeast is the Lake
of Bays, famed for its canoeing on
its many miles of tributary streams
through Fairy Lake north to Lake
Vernon. The many Kawartha lakes
are divided into an eastern and
western group, with steamer service
through both the falls and island
sections.
Land of $4,000 Islands.
Continuing north, yet barely so
miles from Toronto, is beautiful
Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching
district, with the MagnetaWan River
containing Grand Manitoulin, one
of the largest fresh-water islands in
the world. To the north are the
south shore towns of the 200 miles
of blue water country, the 10000
island archipelago of the Georgia
Bay. Summer steamers criss-cross
the broad waters and parallel a
shoreline where literally $4,000
islands have been counted from the
North Channel to Georgian Bay
Island National Park. Further north
is Pickerel River, the French River
and Lake Nipissing. the latter as
sociated with the Port of Callander,
home of the famous quintuplets.
Entering Canada through the
Thousand Islands to Kingston,
where first the Indians, then the
French, then the British gave the
historic town its three steps in his
tory, tradition and development, the
trails lead north to the Halliburton
Highlands, the scene of the Trent
Waterways, with the famed Rideau
Lakes, which are part of the great
Canal system, connecting Ottawa
with Kingston, to the mouth of the
st. Lawrence River.
Large bodies of water for yachting
and canoeing with the enchanting
beauty of sparkling big lakes, are to
be found in the Timagami Provincial
Park of 1900 islands. Here beauti-
full Lake Timagami of 100 miles area
is monarch to a gorgeous cluster
of lakes and rivers vying in water
beauty with the 2,720 water-ribbed
square miles of Algonquin Park and
its fairyland of waterways. Follow