by Gary McWilliams | Dec 22, 2025 | Ontario Explored
🎄 Ontario Visited Christmas Message 2025 🎅 “Merry Christmas and a joyful, healthy, and prosperous New Year!” As another year draws to a close, we pause to reflect on the many experiences, adventures, and friendships that made 2025 so special. This holiday...
by Gary McWilliams | Dec 18, 2025 | Ontario Explored
The Joys of Christmas Shopping! “The Great Christmas Countdown Chaos!” It’s the week before Christmas, and all through the land, not a shopper was calm, not even the seasoned pros with loyalty cards and reward points. The malls glowed like beacons of...
by Gary McWilliams | Dec 11, 2025 | Ontario Explored
Christmas Lights in Ontario “🎄 When Every House Glowed: Ontario’s Golden Age of Christmas Decorating!” The Spark of a Tradition In the years following the Second World War, Ontario’s suburbs began to hum with optimism. Streets once dimmed by blackout...
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...
