Clinton News-Record, 1971-05-20, Page 11Vacation ideas for every taste
Summer is here and the urge.
to travel hits most people, Those
Who can afford it like to visit far
off places, like Europe,
Some like to get away from it
all with a trip to the hush
country or down on the farm.
Some just like weekend jaunts,
We hope this
some ideas
ahead.
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St. Lawrence Parks provide a trip
back into Canada's history
Thursday, May 20, 1971
106 Year No. 20
Gunfire will ripple along the
ramparts of Old Fort Henry at
Kingston each Saturday evening
this summer.
For tourists, and residents, it
will mean an extra opportunity
to see the Fort's internationally
famous Sunset Ceremony.
Previously, the 105 man guard,
band and artillery drill team
performed only once weekly, on
Wednesday nights.
But because of increased
visitor attendance and demand
Greenfield Country
Fair at Greenfield
this weekend
(The Annual Country Fair of
Yesteryear will be held at
Greenfield Village, Dearborn,
Michigan, May 20.21-and 22.)
Sticky, crunchy carmelcorre
wispy cotton candy, and kids,
kids, kids! That's what a country
fair is,
May 20, 21, and 22 kids of all
ages and sizes will converge on
historic Greenfield Village in
Dearborn, Michigan for the
annual Country Fair of
Yesteryear.
The Steam calliope pipes
away at the entrance to the
Village, while hay wagons and
stately carriages line up behind
brassy marching bands and early
automobiles to parade through
the Village to the activities field
where the main events take place
daily.
Village craftsmen demonstrate
early crafts like butter churning,
cedar pressing, candle making
and wood carving. Visitors also
can see the Village sheep
sheared, an exhibit of working
early steam and gasoline engines
and hundreds of farm animals.
4-H club members participate
in dog obedience trials and
competitions in horsemanship
Detroit-area high school bands
perform at various times
throughout the day. A
circus-size tent displaying the art
' projects, hobbies, collections
and home arts skills entered in
competition by school children
from a three-day event.
To complete the old-time
atmosphere, a children's midway
offers races and games for boys
and girls with prizes, a special
program of entertainment and
even a Maypole dance. Wagons
carts and Model Ts take Fair
goers on rides in the Village and
the sternwheel Steamboat
Suwannee makes her first
appearance of the year to take
visitors on a nostalgic trip
aroung the Suwanee, Lagoon.
Fun and excitement await at
every turn, making the Country
Fair of Yesteryear a real family
excursion into the simple
delights of our historic past.
Activities are continuous from
10 aan. to 4 p.m. each day and
are all included in the regular
Village admission of $2.00 for
adults and $1.00 for children six
through 14.
the programme has been
doubled for 1971.
The new weekend promotion
was announced by The St.
Lawrence Parks Commission,
administrators of Old Fort
Henry.
The fortress, one of the finest
historic sites in North America,
is one of three major
recreational projects in Eastern
Ontario and the, Seaway Valley
managed by the Commission.
The others are: Upper Canada
Village, near Morrisburg, and the
sprawling, 170-mile long St.
Lawrence Parks System.
At the western end of the
system stands the grey walls,
guns and museum at Old Fort
Henry.
It was the War of 1812,
between the United States and
Britain, which gave birth to the
Fort.
For as the military leaders of
the time realized, the town of
Kingston, Ontario commanded a
strategic position along the St.
Lawrence River.
And whoever held Kingston,
held the country.
The original fort was started
in 1812; the present fort was
completed in 1832.
Over the years it fell into
disrepair, and remained in this
state intil 1936 when restoration
was began.
It was opened in 1938 as a
tourist attraction under the
jurisdiction of the Department
of Highways, and in 1958 was
transferred to The St. Lawrence
Parks Commission.
Old Fort Henry is best known
for the Fort Henry Guard, made
up of university students.
Dressed in the colourful
scarlet and blue uniforms of the
British Army of the 1867 era,
the guard provides a rare glimpse
of Canada's military past.
There are also daily displays
of senty changing, cannon
salutes, infantry and artillery
drill.
During July and August each
Wednesday and Saturday
evening, the guard present a
Sunset Ceremonial commencing
at 7:30 p.m.
The ceremonial consists of
displays by the fifes and drums,
infantry tactics and a battle
sequence supported by artillery.
The programme finishes with
the playing of Retreat, and East
Battery Salute and lowering of
the flag to signify the end of the
day.
Dates of operation: May
15-September 15. Daily Hours:
May 15-June 14 and after
Labour Day to September 15
-9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. June
15-Labour Day 9:80aan, - 6:30
p.m.
From shoemaking, tailoring,
kitchenware, weaponry,
infantry, artillery and Sunset
drill ceremony displays, Old
Fort Henry, under direction of
The St. Lawrence Parks
Commission, presents one of
Canada's most detailed end
impressive military spectacles,
The Commission's second
historic site, totally accurate to
the finest detail is Upper Canada
Village. It is a remarkable
monument to the courage and
style of the United Empire
Loyalists who first came to the
Eastern Ontario area more that
150 years agOi
Many of the present buildings
in Upper Canada Village are
original and were moved to their
present location after river water
flooded the first homesteads.
With more than 40 homes,
churches, and general
community buildings, the
Sainte Marie, Ont.
- first contmunity
- now historical site
St. Marie among the Hurons,
the reconstructed village of the
first Eurpean community in
Ontario opened for the 1971
season last weekend with a gala
two-day festival.
Premier William G Davis
presided at the opening of a new
museum at the site. During the
ceremonies the 17th century
French flag was raised over
Sainte-Marie,the first time it has
flown there since the destruction
of the community in 1649.
The festival continued
Saturday and Sunday with the
participation of Compagnie
Franche de la marine of
Montreal. The Franche marine
traces its history back to 1622,
It was the first regular army in
Canada and was associated with
all of France's colonial past.
Sainte-Marie itself came alive
during the festival with
costumed craftsmen recreating
17th century skills in workshops
and cookhouse. Canadian
Indians described the 17th
century culture of the Hurons.
Sainte-Marie was built in 1639
by Jesuit missionaries and their
lay French helpers, the first
community in the interior of
Canada and the northern part of
this continent.
It flourished for 10 years, at
its peak second only to Quebec,
housing one-fifth of all the
Europeans living in what is
today Canada. It was destroyed
10 years later by its builders to
escape desecration by invading
Iroquois who destroyed much of
the Huron Nation.
The painstaking rebuilding of
Saint-IVIaire was completed in
1967. The second phase, in-
eluding theatres, archives and
other facilities, was completed
two years ago, The museum is
designed to orient Sainte-Marie
in the International historic,
scientific, cultural, religious and
economic environment which
led to the settlement of Canada,
the development of the fur trade
and the founding of
Sainte-Marie. The museum uses
sound, sight, smell, graphics,
artifacts, displays, slide
programs — even a growing forest
and a waterfall.
Village alsb houses industrial and
agricultural exhibits,
, The setting, in fact, shows the
style and way of life of an
Ontario village during the period
1784 to 1867.
The Village itself is a living
museum.
Dressed in costumes of the
period, artisans, attendants,
housewives, tradesmen and
farm helpers carry out their
daily tasks as did their
forefathers150 years ago.
In the buildings are hundreds
of furnishings and artifacts
donated by, or purchased from,
descendants of the original
families of the area.
Upper Canada Village is
unique. For nowhere else in
Canada is there existing today a
more authentic, and exciting,
example of life as it was lived by
Canada's early settlers.
Adjacent to the Village is
Upper Canada Restaurant, a
modern air conditioned
restaurant seating 200,
And just north of Highway 2,
opposite the entrance to Upper
Canada Village, is the 18-hole
championship Upper Canada
Golf Course with club house
facilities.
Upper Canada Village is open
from mid-May to mid-October.
Daily Hours of operation: May
15 to June 14, from 9:30 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. June 15 to Labour
Day, 9:30 a,m. to 6:30 p.m.
Labour Day to Oct. 15, 9:30
a.m. to 5p.m.
The St. Lawrence Parks
system is itself the major
playground of Eastern Ontario,
It has 2,350 camp and trailer
sites, offering a wide choice of
location and scenery.
The campsites are large and
well maintained. There are
modern lavatory buildings,
electrial outlets and trailer
dumping stations.
Firewood is also available at a
nominal fee.
The day-use areas have large
sandy beaches, concession
facilities, picnic tables and water
safety supervision.
Admission fee: - $1.00,
vehicle entry permit to day use
areas. Camping is $2.50 per day.
This includes vehicle entry fee;
electricity where available, 50
cents per day. Annual vehicle
permit $10.00 (cannot be used
for camping).
All parks sites are open from
9 a,m. to sundown daily, May 15
to Oct. 15.
Beginning its 11th year of
operations, The St. Lawrence
Parks Commission is a major
contribution to the recreational,
and economic life of Eastern
Ontario.
More than 24 million people
have visited and enjoyed
Commission projects since they
began operation in 1961.
For further visitor
information and weekend tour
details, write; The Public
Relations Officer, St. Lawrence
Parks Commission, P.O. Box
340, Morrisburg, Ontario
For several Clinton district
residents, the big event of the
summer of 1971 will be a three
week tour of Europe.
The Community Friendship
Tour, sponsored partially by the
News-Record and by Walter
Forbes of Clinton, will leave
from Toronto on July 21 for -an
exciting tour of Holland,
Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
France and England,
The tour will use KLM Royal
Dutch Airways, departing from
Toronto on July 21. There will
be a stopover in Montreal and
the flight to Amsterdam will
take place that evening. Arrival
in Amsterdam will be the next
morning where the tourists will
be met and taken to the hotel.
The rest of the day will be free
for either rest or for shopping
and sightseeing.
The next morning, Friday
July 23 will begin a tour of
Amsterdam. The members of the
tour will visit the Rijks museum
where they will be able the view
the work of the great painter
Rembrandt.
There is a square in
Amsterdam called the Dam. This
is where it all began hundreds of
years ago when a group of
fishermen built a village they
called Amsteldam — Dam on the
Amstel. The first canal they
built was merely a moat, but as
the place expanded, they built a
second, then a third, then a
fourth, Today, no matter how a
visitor arrives in Amsterdam —
by ship, train, plane or car — it is
this web of concentric
waterways that says welcome to
the Venice of the north.
The visitors will get a chance
to see the famous canals on,
Friday afternoon as they tour
them and the harbours in a canal
sightseeing boat,
Anisterdanl of the Golden
Age has been remarkably
preserved and even today not
one brick of this historic city
can be removed without
Government permission. It is
true that few of those oldtime
stately homes of wealthy
merchants are now used as
residences, but the buildings
remain, never-the-less, and still
exude dignity, art and beauty,
especially viewed during the
canal tour by luxury water
coach.
After staying overnight in
Amsterdam, the tour will move
on, across the German border to
Cologne.
Cologne is one of the towns
of the Western world that was
founded by the Romans. For
centuries, up to the Barbarian
Invasions, it was not only the
northeastern cornerstone of the
Empire and capital of the
Roman province of Lower
Germany, but also a thriving
centre for trade and culture. The
centre, the very heart of the
city; is the Cathedral. The
foundation stone was laid in
1248, but was not completed
until the 1800's, During the
Second World War, the
Cathedral suffered severe
damage. The chancel was
restored and reopened in 1948
and in 1956 it was possible to
reopen the whole of the interior,
while the exterior work still
continues.
The next morning the tour
moves on to Bonn, capital of
West Germany. Enroute the
tourists will motor to Koblenz
on the Rhine and continue on to
Boppard where they will cruise
on the romantic Rhine viewing
vineyards, castlecrowded hills
and the famous Lorelei Rock.
They will stay overnight in
Ruedeshiein.
On Monday morning, July 26,
the tour will depart for Munich.
On the way the members of
thethe tour will visit Rothenburg
and tour the medieval walled
city that has been untouched by
time. Then it's on up the
Autobahn to Munich in Bavaria
where the group Wilt spend the
night.
Tuesday morning there will be
a chance to get to see Munich
and take in some of its taste and
culture. The night will be spent
in Vienna, across the border in
Austria, Wednesday will be spent
in this, one of the world's most
beautiful cities. There will be a
visit to St. Stephen's Cathedral
with its 448-foot Gothic spire.
The church was gutted during
the last days of World War Two
but was restored through
contributions from the Austrian
people.
Also on the agenda for the
day is Ringstrasse, Townhall,
Schonbrunn Castle and the
Vienna Woods with its
panoramic view of the Blue
Danube.
Thursday morning the group
will leave, via Melk and Ybs to
Salzburg, the birthplace of the
great composer Mozart where
there will be tours of the Old
Town, Cathedral and Festspiel
Haus. After spending the night
in Salsburg, it's on to Insbruck,
then through the breathtakingly
beautiful Tyrol region, over the
Arlberg Pass to Vaduz, capital of
the tiny principality of
Liechenstein. Then on to
Lucerne in Switzerland on a trip
that will give more sighs to the
mile through the spectacular
Alps.
The night will be spent in
Lucerne and the city will be
toured on Saturday, July 31.
The visitors will see the Lion's
Monument, the wooden Chapel
Bridge, the Medieval Walls and
the Town Hall.
Sunday will be a day of rest in
the beautiful city of Lucerene
where the tourists may or relax,
further explore the region or do
some shopping for famous Swiss
watches or music boxes.
Monday morning, August 2,
the tour will depart for a
leisurley trip to Bern, then on to
Lausanne and along the shores
of Lake Geneva to Geneva for
visits to the League of Nations
Building and the Old Town.
Tuesday morning the tour will
leave Geneva and travel via Dole,
birthplace of Louis Pasteur, to
Dijon France for the night.
The next morning, following
air early start, the group will
drive through the roiling plains
of central France with its
plcturesque villages and
vineyards and on to Paris, city of
Light, After an overnight rest,
the visitors will begin their first
of three full days in the city
with a tour of the Opera,
Madeleine, Eiffel Tower, Arc De
Triomphe, Tuileres Gradens and
Notre Dame. Friday the group
will tour the Louvre,
Montmarte, Place de la Bastille,
Luxemburg Gardens and a boat
trip on the Seine.
Saturday will be a day of rest
and relaxation with a chance for
the visitors to see the city on
their own, browse among the
book stalls on the left bank or
sit in a sidewalk d:.
Sunday the group will leave
for London, England for the
first of three days in the British
capital. The group will see
Buckingham Palace and the
Changing of the Guard,
Westminister Abbey, House of
Parliament, London Bridge, St.
Paul's Cathedral, The Tower of
London, Piccadilly, Pall Mall.
Trafalgar Square, the Strand,
Regent Street, Oxford Street
and many other points of
interest,
Monday will be free for
relaxation and private
sightseeing. Tuesday will feature
a tour of the countryside to
Cambridge and other points,
returning to London for the
evening.
Wednesday morning it's off
for home via Amsterdam with
arrival in Montreal at 3:45 and
on to Toronto in the early
evening.
The cost of the whole tour is
$871 per person including first
class hotels, all bus fares, all
entrance fees to points of
interest, luggage handling and
professional tour escort,
Not included are airport
taxes, tips to tour escort and
busdriver at the conclusion of
the bus tour in Paris and items
of a personal nature such as
beverages, passports and visas.
Tour offers friendly way to see Europe
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'A hew eesierience in old-fashioned hospitality, farm holidays Make fine vacation Sense, especially
for faMily groups. The Canadian provinee of Ontario. it a leader in promoting this geoveing pastiMe,
simply a holiday on an honest-to-goodness farm for paying euests„ e-phOto by Ontario Departinent
of Tourism and information.
Do nothing, eat heartily and
let the world spin by.
Join the popular swing back to
the farm in Ontario and share
this Candian province's
pastoral life without wielding
anything more laborious than a
table fork.
A new experience in
oltl-fashioned hospitality,
Ontario farm vacations offer all
the uncomplicated pleasures of
relaxed country living, though
you ate welcome to pitch in and
help with the dishes of the
haying, for that matter—if you
want toga energetic about it.
A farm vacation is simply a
holiday on a farm for paying
guests. Rates vary slightly but
the average charge, including
room and meals, is about '$60
for one adult for one week,
approximately half for children
under 12,
No dude ranches, these are
veal, honest-to-goodness farms
with cows and chickens and a
barn and hay and the whole
bucolic bit,
Every region of the province
is represented in the roster of
host farms so that, Whatever area
you may prefer—eastern,
western, southwestern, central
or northern—it otters cordial
homesteads for your eelettioe,
What's more, there's no closed
season on good fun and good
times in the country. Many
farms will welcome you any
time of year—spring. summer,
fall or winter—for a 'weekend or
full scale holiday.
Not only are city slickers
discovering the uneontrived
charms of a farm vacation, but
country-bred people too firr,
relishing the 'return to the
nostalgic delights of earlier days.
These rustic escapades from
smog and traffic jams have
become a thriving business in
many sections of Canada and the
U.S. Among Canadian provinces,
Ontario toads the way with a
unique program conducted by
the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture, with the
co-operation of the Ontario
Department of Tourism and
Information. They arrange
training mums for host
husband-arid wife couples and
have compiled a listing of
members who accept guests.
Now in the third year of this
project, the OFA has more 'than
60 host farms On record, with
the total increasing steadily.
Officials foresee and eventual
Membership of 500 such farms
in this province.
Farm holidays make fine
vacation sense, especially for
family groups, in this urbanized
age when some zoos now find it
necessary to stock a farm horse
,or two so -city children will
know what tfee-y look like.
Adults, too, are finding
happiness clown on the farm. A
hammock stretched between
two old sugar maples beats the
daily battle for a seat on the bus
by a country
Some farms have built special
accommodation to handle
guests, but usually your NOM is
one in the farmhouse that the
host's family doesn't
need---farmhouses being the sort
of rambling places they are.
Though clean and comfortable,
the room won't be ultra-modern
like the motel you stopped at on
your last trip. In fact, it's much
more likely to be 100 years old.
The breeze that blows in the
window from the apple orchard
will probably be all the
air-conditioning available. Along
with the scot of new-mown
hay, however, it can have a Pied
Piper effect 'on someone who
regularly fills his lungs on streets
loaded with eehaest fumes. For
many city folk, too, it's a treat
to behold a clear, star-drenched
sky. If visions • 'of hot
homemade bread, smothered in
fresh butter and dipped in maple
syrup, dance in your head, this' s
the answer, as it is for anyone
who longs for down-to-earth
home cooking, with fresh fruits
and vegetables.
As 'one enthusiast
rhapsodized, whose family of six
has 'enjoyed seven farm vactiotis
in the past eight years:
"Everything is fresh or
home-grown, home-cooked and
generously served at a gracious,
convivial table. Melly of the
ladies have their own
specialties--perhaps bread, 'or
tarts and pies, jams and jellies, or
roasts. Often you share a
treasured family tecipe,
Corn-on-the-cob, picked at four
&Clock arid on 'the table at five,
is an experience of its own."
On or off the farm, you can
be as busy as you like—or just
loaf.
Usually there is no organized
entertainment, though farm
families—and frequently their
guests—are still adept at a spot
of chandelier-swinging with a
fiddle, guitar, accordion tr
piano.
Farm vacations provide
exceptional opportunities for
the artist, the photographer, the
rockhound, the bird-watcher,
the fisherman, the hunter and
°there who have a special
interest in natural things.
What to do is practically
unlimited, what with picriits and
hikes in the fragrant woods.
berry-picking, swimming (maybe
in a mill-pond), country
auctions, visiting local museums
and venerable homesteads, fall
color sightseeing, skiing and
showmobiling.
To get a line on farm homes
which take guests, a complete
listing is contained in a compact
free booklet, Ontario Farm
Vacations, obtainable by
Welting:Press Offieet,
Department of Tourism and
Information, 185 Bloor St. E.,
Toronto 285, Ont.
And, among the many
rewards of an Ontario ferm
vacation, is that you 'meet the
nicest people. One fart) "hostess
'confided: "We became such
good friends, it was awkward to
accept their money."
Tours arailabit ,
at Douglas Point
The Information Centre at the
'Bruce Nuclear Power
Development will open its doors
for another season on Saturday,
May 22, 1911, The centre will
be open to the public days a
week from 10:30 n.m. to 6:30
p.m. and for the first time,
feature guided bus tours of the
complex on weekends and
holidays.
Visitors are invited to take in
the mutinous program at the
Information centre, discover the
wonders of the atom through
films, models, arid displays, view
construction progress from an
obServation bridge, and take a
conducted bus tour of the
development.
The Bruce Nuclear Power
Development, which is a joint
project of Ontario Hydro and
Atomic Energy of • 'Canada
Limited, is located 'between
Kincardine and Port Elgin 'on
Lake Huron with access from
Highway 21. To get thew,
travel west from Highway 21 for
5 miles on the Douglas Point
access road, then follow the
signs marked Information
Centre.
Groups are also welcome arid
may arrange special programs by
writieg or calling the Public
Relations Department, Bruce
Nuclear Power Development,
P.O. Box 1000, Tivetton,
Ontario telephone (area code
519) 368.1031'extension 307 or
308.
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