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We leave Kingston, Ontario after having spent 36 days in Canada. It was quite an adventure and a learning experience. The French and British presence there today, warm weather, clear water, butter tarts, locks, big flies and friendly people. We are ready. Kingston is on the eastern end of Lake Ontario. Somewhere, invisibly, we crossContinueContinue reading “Thousand Islands”

The Rideau Canal is a Unesco World Heritage site, the Canadians are very proud of it and it shows. It was built in 1832 primarily for military purposes when Great Britain and the U.S. were fighting for control of the area. Now it is run by Parks Canada and is a tourist attraction. Clearly theContinueContinue reading “Rideau Canal”

We head up the Ottawa River for about 3 hours and arrive in the Capitol of Canada, Ottawa. The entrance is a stack of 8 locks in a row, very tiring and quite the tourist attraction, we should have charged Parks Canada. Lots and lots of tourists watching and videoing us (and all the otherContinueContinue reading “Canada’s Capitol”

In order to head out of Montreal and continue up the St Lawrence River you must go through the St. Lambert Lock, just 20 minutes off our current dock in downtown. For this lock, which is very busy with both commercial and pleasure boats, you must schedule your lock time. When we went to bedContinueContinue reading “Locking & Loopers”

A night on anchor is always enticing as it conjours up images of Tom Sawyer. Idiling away the day on the river. And it is that. But there is also a bit of a nagging in your mind that the anchor may not hold and you will wind up on the rocks or in theContinueContinue reading “Anchoring & Montreal”

Old Quebec is truly the most stunning city in America from a charm point of view! (if you think you saw this post already, you did. But it was cut off about a third of the way down so I redid it and am reposting it correctly). It has been on our list for severalContinueContinue reading “Old Quebec- Europe in America”

Wednesday June 28-Thursday June 29. We pushed off the wall in Chambly in a good bit of rain. The three locks immediately here took us down over 45′ into the Chambly Basin. Very pretty and because we were the only boat in the lock at the time it was very manageable. We had purchased aContinueContinue reading “Travel Days”

Sunday June 25th – Tuesday 27th. We left the marina in Ile aux Noix early in order to get a spot ‘on the wall’ in Chambly, on the canal. We had been through the NY locks two summers ago so we are not complete newbies at locking, but the Canadian system is different. We mustContinueContinue reading “Canadian Locks”

I am aware that Quebec is French speaking but considering that Canada is 3/4’s English speaking I was always of the thought that they spoke French but were more of an English culture. This is not the case and it is very interesting. (Regrettably, we are experiencing some haze from the northern wildfires.) Everyone speaksContinueContinue reading “Bonjour!”

We arrived in Plattsburg on Wednesday the 21st a little after noon, disappointed to hear the detailing job was not completed, but it would be by noon Thursday. Then we discovered that UPS failed to deliver a ‘splitter’ we needed, but the marina agreed to let us have theirs and they would keep ours. SoContinueContinue reading “Bienvenue au Canada”