Violaann, your pictures of the canal reminds me of my vacation at Ottawa/Quebec!!! Montreal has alot of similar structures. I went there on Feb. 5 years ago and were were fortunate enough to see Montreal's ball de neige. They had slides made out of packed snow! it was awesome! I want to go back there again and go through the mazes and slide on those snow slides and have hot cocoa!!! lol. The scenery was breathtaking by Mont Royale (I think this was the name).
I've been to Algonquin, great for star gazing. You can see the milky way and in some months the Aurora Borealis! Too bad non of my family likes to camp outdoors =/
Canada Through Your Eyes part 2
I don't have pictures as of yet, but after reading this discussion, I'm planning my own excursion based on "25 Things You Must Do While in Toronto". As guilty as I am, I've lived in Toronto for over half my life and have not touched the glass floor on the CN tower or have gone to Casa Loma... I'll take pictures as I go lol.
http://toronto.com/attractions/article/600238
1. Lie face down on the glass floor at the CN Tower
2. Sit upstairs at Union Station during rush hour
3. Skate at Nathan Phillips Square
4. Tour the Steam Whistle Brewery
5. Have a hot chocolate at Soma in The Distillery District
6. Do a bike tour of Toronto Island
7. Go shopping at Honest Ed’s
8. Walk the boardwalk at The Beach
9. Go to Dundas Square NOTE: be careful of Samurai-wannabe with a katana
10. Dine at a famous chef’s place
11. Take a city walking tour
12. Get out of the downtown core
13. Ride the Queen streetcar
14. Go shopping in Chinatown
15. Have a coffee in Kensington Market
17. Eat corn on the sidewalk in Little India in the summer
16. Window shop in Yorkville
18. Take a train ride through High Park
19. Walk the entire PATH
20. Check out a local band
21. Sample honey at St. Lawrence Market
22. Tour the CBC building
23. Eat Souvlaki on The Danforth
24. Have dinner in Little Italy
25. Read in the garden at Casa Loma
evr - are those crossed out things you've done or things you can't do anymore? I'm thinking of Honest Ed's. I thought it had closed.
I've done them a thousand times =D.
Skated @ Nathan Phillip's Square, but I do want to there again during Christmas - they have so much lights and other events!
I shopped at Honest Ed's I think last year or two years ago. We always go there whenever I have to go to my campus to study for exams; we eat hot bulgogi during the coldest months at Korea town and then visit Honest Ed which is right beside it.
Dundas Square - we always sit there whenever we go to Eaton's
Ride the Queen streetcar and shopping at Chinatown and have coffee at Kensington can be done right after one another; I have to ride the Queen 500+ streetcars to get to Chinatown which is right beside Kensington.
I've windowshopped at Yorkville which was REALLY expensive...we it was more like "window-watch"
CBC my mom used to work there; they have a radio station there I think, it just looks like an expensive shopping mall.
Souvlaki on Danforth - taste of the Danforth festival!!!!
Honest Ed's is huge!!! I heard before he used to give away Turkeys for Thanksgiving and people would line up? I've never seen that before
My first trip to your beautiful country and fancy bumping into you, Burn. Lovely place you come from. What wonderful places. I had a chuckle about what constitutes a mountain. We call anything more than 100' high a mountain. What exactly are the Hoodoos? Lilypon, if that's one of the smallest churches in the country, where are ones that are smaller? Thanks for the tour, everyone and I look forward to seeing the fall colours.
Lovely pics of the Guildwood Inn evr and I'm looking forward to seeing your pictures of Toronto.
Welcome to Canada Margaret! :)
What are the Hoodoos? A hoodoo is a rock formation which is caused by different areas of the rock formation being resistant to erosion. Some parts of the hoodoo are harder than others and these hard parts last longer. In the hoodoos above, the tops are the hardest part and they protect the soft rock below from wearing away. Here's an interesting link regarding the Hoodoos: http://www.billcasselman.com/casselmania/hoodoo.htm.
re the smallness of the Church I was playing it safe......as far as I know it is the smallest but if I had posted that chances are someone here may know of one that is smaller ;).
Going by your definition of a mountain I think Saskatchewan should rethink the naming of our portion of the Cypress Hills. The Cypress Hills rise up to 600 metres above the surrounding prairie, to a maximum elevation of 1,468 metres (4,816 ft), making it Canada's highest point between the Canadian Rockies and the Labrador peninsula and also the highest point in Saskatchewan. http://www.cypresshills.com/cypresshillssask.html Mount Cypress has a nice ring to it. :)
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Great seeing you on this Canadian thread Margaret. I thought I had already made a post welcoming you, but it must not have gone through. I've been having problem with my modem lately, and a few post didn't make it.
Evr, will be looking forward to other pics on Toronto.
Thought I'd put a few pics of Prince Edward Island, I was visiting my Sister early this Summer and got a few from around Summerside areas.
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Last one for tonight.
Gorgeous photos of PEI, burn. Number 7 & 9 look like places I'd like to be. :)
Thanks for the welcome, burn and lilypon. Burn they are all beautiful shots. No 5 looks like a painting.
Thanks Margaret and Don, glad you enjoy them. Don not in a bathing suit this time of year, lol you'd freeze you BO ;). PEI is really a beautiful scenic place to visit with a nice variety of BIRDS Margaret.
Burn my son sighs every time he thinks about his trip to Prince Edward Island...he sure enjoyed telling us about PEI's beautiful sandy beaches, dunes, and the ocean (as well as the lobsters *sigh*, mussels, gorgeous locales, traps, etc. etc ;)! Thank you so much for sharing your lovely pictures of our only island province.
Since this thread is getting rather long here's Part 3: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/903135/
We are looking forward to seeing those promised pics of Toronto evr and Manitoba I hope you've dusted off your digitals (Quebec is noticeably missing too). I'm guessing our member from the N.W.T. is no longer a subscribing member?
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Since the link was corrected above, mine is unnecessary.
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Thanks Ann! :) That's what I get from trying to sort through my peppers and checking that my picture was okay (I lifted it from a small thumbnail in my picture album). My link is corrected now.
CN tower
skywalk + cn tower
condos by Harbour Front
Taken at metro Convention center
Dundas Square
Yonge and Queen..not quite good exposure
T-Rex at the Royal Ontario Museum =)
I hope you enjoy the downtown pics =)
Eliz
Nice picture Eliz, I was in Toronto once, pass by the CN tower, but was never in it. Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful images, Eliz. Thanks. What's with the Woodpecker?
Awesome shots!! It is great to see so much of Canada through your eyes....
viola ann you forgot the byward market downtown ottawa it my favorite place to go love all the shops and the people its a great place to spend a lazy morning just walking around and looking
Mona - we didn't get there that particular day except on the tour bus, but Sandy and I took the gnomes there in October - http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/917869/
Maybe next time I get my hair cut ( in the market) I'll take the camera and be a tourist for awhile.
I go a few times each summer the girls love it all the trinkets and jewelry it does hurt the pocket book but it makes for a great day
ok that thread is so amazingly cute love the boys have to get some for the garden lol
hubby will have an attach of something he doesnt like those little men so I will tell him the girls got them hahahhaha should work
do you belong to a garden society???
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Ottawa Horticultural Society but I don't generally go to the meetings. They're all on Tuesdays when I teach.
Those gnomes are now in Newfoundland and it's just about time to talk about whether they will make a return trip across Canada and who they will visit. They started out in early July on Vancouver Island.
that is so amazing
and maybe you should switch to the gloucester horticultural society we meet on the third monday of each month
I DID belong to them at one time, but usually had Monday rehearsals. Now I have Monday rehearsal usually only two weeks before the Monday OSO concert although this concert it will be three Mondays in a row. And now I've got Monday students as well.
that to bad we have a good time with all of us gardeners and they have speakers coming that discuss all different topics of gardening so I am learning some new things