by Gary McWilliams | Dec 4, 2025 | Ontario Explored
Ontario Historic Towns – Part Two “From Cobblestone Streets to Canal Locks!” But progress came at a cost: malaria carried by mosquitoes in the canal swamps, backbreaking labour, and isolation for months of winter. Families lived on little more than...
by Gary McWilliams | Dec 3, 2025 | Ontario Explored
Ontario Historic Towns – Part One “From Cobblestone Streets to Canal Locks!” Before there were roads, before the names of towns were etched on maps, Ontario was an immense wilderness of rock, forest, and water. Rivers ran clear and deep, serving as...
by Gary McWilliams | Nov 26, 2025 | Ontario Explored
Signs of the Times “A Joyride Through Rural Ontario’s Roadside Wit!” There’s a particular delight to driving the backroads of rural Ontario: the radio fades to a polite murmuring, the fields trade gossip with the wind, and the horizon looks like it’s been...
by Gary McWilliams | Nov 21, 2025 | Ontario Explored
The Roads Less Traveled (and the Washrooms Even Less So) “A Light-hearted Survival Guide for Rural Wanderers!” For twenty years, we’ve wandered Ontario’s Roads Less Traveled, those winding concessions, forgotten sideroads, and dirt-lane shortcuts that look...
by Gary McWilliams | Nov 19, 2025 | Ontario Explored
Accessibility – Opening the Doors Wider “How Ontario Visited Helps Communities Showcase and Strengthen their Accessibility!” An aging population, a growing community of travellers with disabilities, and a looming 2025 deadline for full compliance...
by Gary McWilliams | Nov 12, 2025 | Ontario Explored
Santa Claus Parades in Ontario “Curbside Carols, Community Pride: How parades turn sidewalks into community !” Every November, when the last stubborn maple leaf finally lets go and snow starts auditioning for a long-term role, Ontario does something...
