Guelph Ontario-April 26
North West of Toronto Guelph
Ontario is hosting a “Doors Open Ontario” weekend
on April 26 in a variety of interesting, historical
and educational facilities. University of Guelph Alumni who may have
frequented the Albion Hotel will be able to see the refurbished new
boutique hotel famous for its ghosts, and draft beer. More than 10
historic buildings are opening their doors including churches, guest
houses, schools, and more. Book
Guelph Hotels on-line.
Port Hope Ontario-May
North East of Toronto, Port
Hope Ontario has 10 historical sites including churches, galleries,
cemeteries, and perhaps most interesting is the Trinity College School
Observatory and Boulden House. Boulden House, built in 1924, is now
a junior school for Trinity College, and contains the school’s
art studios. The Anne Currie Observatory, donated in 2003, has an
automated dome with 360-degree rotation and a retractable shutter.
It has a magnification of 750 times, and contains a global positioning
system that automatically determines time, altitude, longitude and
latitude. Book Port
Hope hotels on-line
Brockville Ontario and Thousand Islands-May
North East of Toronto, The
Brockville 1000 Islands area has more than 25 sites available
for touring during the Doors Open Ontario weekend. This is perhaps
the most diverse including wineries, bed and breakfasts and the Colonel’s
Inn, antique boats and a National Park Historic Battle site, The Battle
of the Windmill Battle of the Windmill National Historic Site. This
site won the Brockville-Thousand Islands People’s Choice Award
in 2005 and 2006. In 1838, a bloody battle took place here between
an American Hunter (or Patriot) “lodge,” a group sympathetic
to the 1837 Rebellions in Canada but unknown to the American government,
and a combination of local militia and British forces, who defeated
the invaders. Book
Brockville area hotels on-line.
Loyalist Parkway (Napanee area between Kingston and Belleville)
May-31
North East of Toronto, the Loyalist
Parkway has a handful of sites including apiaries, wineries, and
libraries. One of the must stops along the parkway is the United Empire
Loyalist Heritage Centre & Park. Fleeing the chaos that followed
the American Revolution, Caspar and Barbara Hoover arrived in Adolphustown
in 1784 and joined a refugee encampment at Hagerman’s Point.
Their grandson, David W. Allison, MP, built this stately red-brick
home in 1876–77. It has been a United Empire Loyalist museum
since 1956. Book Belleville,
Kingston
hotels on-line.
