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Toronto - 3 days
Niagara Falls - 2 days
Deerhurst Resort - 5 days
Pembroke - 2 days
Ottawa - 2 days
What can we do in these places?
I'm from Ireland and have never been there before, we want to make the most of it!
Answer
What you do will depend on your preferences.
Toronto....live theatres abound, small and large, and movie/cinema theatres are everywhere and Toronto is frequently where major movies are first released for viewing by the public, even ahead of all USA cities.
Bars and Clubs for after-hours fun are readily available as well, and Toronto has major-league sports teams in baseball, football, soccer, basketball and hockey, depending on the season.
The CN Tower is a major tourist attraction, being the highest structure in the commonwealth, and from which you can walk onto an enclosed platform that lets you see most of Toronto from a height of 1200 feet. It also has a restaurant that revolves around the tower once per hour. Food quality and service there can sometimes be very good, but more often varies from good down to poor. Immediately south is a series of islands, linked by small bridges and accessible by a ferry that runs across the harbour, a distance of almost one mile , depending on destination chosen. The west end of the island chain is an airport, and it is accessible also by ferry
but there the distance from shore is only a hundred yards.
This can be a quiet and relaxing way to spend a day, or get away from the noise of the city for a picnic. Food and entertainment for kids is available, bicycles can be rented and swimming is usually open.
Across Toronto shopping is readily available, the area of Bloor and Yonge being the most expensive, but malls, both open and indoors, are all around the city. The Eaton Centre is the main shopping attraction, located right next to City Hall at Yonge and Queen Streets.
Underground shopping and entertainment is also right there, as underground passages that run from north of the Eaton Centre to Union Station (over half a mile) provide many underground stores, conveniences, restaurants and entertainment, plus access to above-ground things such as hotels, banks and theatres.
Transportation type varies, but is available all day and night in downtown areas, less in suburbs. Depending on your location, you can travel by bus, streetcar (electric cars that run on rails and use spring-loaded trolleys to connect to overhead wires) and subway. Taxis, of course, are everywhere, at all times.
Food choices are open to your imagination, as Toronto probably has the most choices of any large city, with restaurants representing the foods of every nation on hand. Most of it is even reasonable in price and fairly good.
Larges ethnic areas exist. In the east is Greek, then Indian/Pakistani, mid-downtown is Chinese and Viet Namese, plus Korean. Slightly west of that is Portugese, mid-north is the Jewish district and in between is Little Italy.
Toronto even has its own real castle, Casa Loma. It does not have the history of British castles, but it does have its own character and panache. Three is a large and well-renowned zoo on the east of the city, where the animals have freedom and YOU are caged....or it seems that way.
Bear in mind that Toronto is a LARGE city, so if there is a particular attraction that you want to see, check a map and/or ask for assistance before venturing out: travelling from the airport (north-west) to the zoo (east) is more than forty miles along the highway. That highway (called 401) is an adventure if you are unaccustomed to heavy traffic. Across Toronto it has up to 16 lanes of traffic....8 in each direction.
Niagara Falls.....a highly entertaining area. Scenery is nothing less than spectacular. There is an eclectic area on Stanley Street that provides the aura of a carnival, with a lot of things available, from adult and children's rides to a Canadian Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. You can go to the Casino, as well, where you can spend money and/or watch the live entertainers, usually middle-to-upper class ones.
The Falls themselves are spectacular. They are the division between USA and Canada, and both sides offer their own views, but all visitors will agree they are best seen from the Canadian side. At night they are illuminated by coloured lights, and this is worth seeing.
You can take a brief (and expensive ) helicopter ride over the falls, or buy a ticket for the Maid of the Mist boat tour that runs all day, and takes you close to the bottom of the falls. They supply the rain gear......you WILL get wet anyway, but it is great fun for kids and adults.
Make hotel arrangements in advance, because summer visits are high season and some will raise the prices daily if demand will support it.
Deerhurst is in a comparatively remote area , approximately 100 miles (160km) from Toronto. It is largely self-contained. You get to relax there, enjoy the food, (which is usually quite good) play golf, and they have some entertainment in the evenings.
You could rent a car and drive around the area for a day and this would be highly recommended as some of the scenery is spectacular. (You drive on the RIGHT side of the road).
A little more distance and you can visit Algonquin Park, where a highway runs through the southern portion of the park and you very often see wild animals roaming free.
Fishing is plentiful in the area, mostly pickerel, pike and bass.
Pembroke....relax and enjoy. It is a small city, not that far from Ottawa. If relaxation does not appeal to you after Deerhurst, try white water rafting. Depending on the outfitter you choose, (OWL is the largest,) and the date of your visit, this can be demanding on your oarsmanship or you can go by power raft (early spring only) . This is because water levels and scenery change through the summer and some outfitters operate on less demanding waterway sections of the Ottawa River. A raft trip usually takes most of a day, meals are included, and no matter which time you choose, you are virtually guaranteed that it will be truly GREAT fun!
Ottawa.....Parliament city. Seat of the Federal Government of Canada.
Government buildings abound, and most are open to visitors, from the historical Archives to current items at the Art Gallery.
The Ottawa River runs around the city and the Rideau Canal runs through it. There are many parks and all have beautiful spots for picnics or just to watch the birds and other small wild-life. My favourite place is by Bank Street and Riverside. It is in downtown, but there are a lot of geese, ducks, gulls and an occasional groundhog or raccoon along the water edge and on a tiny island that you can walk out to. (the water is not more than waist-deep, but the bottom is covered with a few large rocks and many small rocks which can move under your feet. ) Excepting the gulls, they will come right up to you and take food from your hand. This week chicks, ducklings, and goslings are all around.
Be cautious with the parents, especially geese, as they are protective of their young. They like bread and Dollarama is the best place to buy bread....one dollar a loaf, which is often less than half what other stores charge.
What you do will depend on your preferences.
Toronto....live theatres abound, small and large, and movie/cinema theatres are everywhere and Toronto is frequently where major movies are first released for viewing by the public, even ahead of all USA cities.
Bars and Clubs for after-hours fun are readily available as well, and Toronto has major-league sports teams in baseball, football, soccer, basketball and hockey, depending on the season.
The CN Tower is a major tourist attraction, being the highest structure in the commonwealth, and from which you can walk onto an enclosed platform that lets you see most of Toronto from a height of 1200 feet. It also has a restaurant that revolves around the tower once per hour. Food quality and service there can sometimes be very good, but more often varies from good down to poor. Immediately south is a series of islands, linked by small bridges and accessible by a ferry that runs across the harbour, a distance of almost one mile , depending on destination chosen. The west end of the island chain is an airport, and it is accessible also by ferry
but there the distance from shore is only a hundred yards.
This can be a quiet and relaxing way to spend a day, or get away from the noise of the city for a picnic. Food and entertainment for kids is available, bicycles can be rented and swimming is usually open.
Across Toronto shopping is readily available, the area of Bloor and Yonge being the most expensive, but malls, both open and indoors, are all around the city. The Eaton Centre is the main shopping attraction, located right next to City Hall at Yonge and Queen Streets.
Underground shopping and entertainment is also right there, as underground passages that run from north of the Eaton Centre to Union Station (over half a mile) provide many underground stores, conveniences, restaurants and entertainment, plus access to above-ground things such as hotels, banks and theatres.
Transportation type varies, but is available all day and night in downtown areas, less in suburbs. Depending on your location, you can travel by bus, streetcar (electric cars that run on rails and use spring-loaded trolleys to connect to overhead wires) and subway. Taxis, of course, are everywhere, at all times.
Food choices are open to your imagination, as Toronto probably has the most choices of any large city, with restaurants representing the foods of every nation on hand. Most of it is even reasonable in price and fairly good.
Larges ethnic areas exist. In the east is Greek, then Indian/Pakistani, mid-downtown is Chinese and Viet Namese, plus Korean. Slightly west of that is Portugese, mid-north is the Jewish district and in between is Little Italy.
Toronto even has its own real castle, Casa Loma. It does not have the history of British castles, but it does have its own character and panache. Three is a large and well-renowned zoo on the east of the city, where the animals have freedom and YOU are caged....or it seems that way.
Bear in mind that Toronto is a LARGE city, so if there is a particular attraction that you want to see, check a map and/or ask for assistance before venturing out: travelling from the airport (north-west) to the zoo (east) is more than forty miles along the highway. That highway (called 401) is an adventure if you are unaccustomed to heavy traffic. Across Toronto it has up to 16 lanes of traffic....8 in each direction.
Niagara Falls.....a highly entertaining area. Scenery is nothing less than spectacular. There is an eclectic area on Stanley Street that provides the aura of a carnival, with a lot of things available, from adult and children's rides to a Canadian Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. You can go to the Casino, as well, where you can spend money and/or watch the live entertainers, usually middle-to-upper class ones.
The Falls themselves are spectacular. They are the division between USA and Canada, and both sides offer their own views, but all visitors will agree they are best seen from the Canadian side. At night they are illuminated by coloured lights, and this is worth seeing.
You can take a brief (and expensive ) helicopter ride over the falls, or buy a ticket for the Maid of the Mist boat tour that runs all day, and takes you close to the bottom of the falls. They supply the rain gear......you WILL get wet anyway, but it is great fun for kids and adults.
Make hotel arrangements in advance, because summer visits are high season and some will raise the prices daily if demand will support it.
Deerhurst is in a comparatively remote area , approximately 100 miles (160km) from Toronto. It is largely self-contained. You get to relax there, enjoy the food, (which is usually quite good) play golf, and they have some entertainment in the evenings.
You could rent a car and drive around the area for a day and this would be highly recommended as some of the scenery is spectacular. (You drive on the RIGHT side of the road).
A little more distance and you can visit Algonquin Park, where a highway runs through the southern portion of the park and you very often see wild animals roaming free.
Fishing is plentiful in the area, mostly pickerel, pike and bass.
Pembroke....relax and enjoy. It is a small city, not that far from Ottawa. If relaxation does not appeal to you after Deerhurst, try white water rafting. Depending on the outfitter you choose, (OWL is the largest,) and the date of your visit, this can be demanding on your oarsmanship or you can go by power raft (early spring only) . This is because water levels and scenery change through the summer and some outfitters operate on less demanding waterway sections of the Ottawa River. A raft trip usually takes most of a day, meals are included, and no matter which time you choose, you are virtually guaranteed that it will be truly GREAT fun!
Ottawa.....Parliament city. Seat of the Federal Government of Canada.
Government buildings abound, and most are open to visitors, from the historical Archives to current items at the Art Gallery.
The Ottawa River runs around the city and the Rideau Canal runs through it. There are many parks and all have beautiful spots for picnics or just to watch the birds and other small wild-life. My favourite place is by Bank Street and Riverside. It is in downtown, but there are a lot of geese, ducks, gulls and an occasional groundhog or raccoon along the water edge and on a tiny island that you can walk out to. (the water is not more than waist-deep, but the bottom is covered with a few large rocks and many small rocks which can move under your feet. ) Excepting the gulls, they will come right up to you and take food from your hand. This week chicks, ducklings, and goslings are all around.
Be cautious with the parents, especially geese, as they are protective of their young. They like bread and Dollarama is the best place to buy bread....one dollar a loaf, which is often less than half what other stores charge.
If our country had universal health care would our businesses be more profitable?
Kasey pink
Not only would we be able to actually buy locally produced goods, but goods and services would be cheaper. A lot of the reason for outsourcing has to do with the high cost of labor. If we took some of the burden off the private sector by having health insurance provided for like it is in other industrialized nations, perhaps our businesses would be more competitive in a global market?
Not to mention that it is incredibly inhumane to deny poor people health care...people are dying in this country of preventative illnesses for the sake of saving tax dollars while greedy insurance executives own several mansions. It makes me sick.
Answer
Mansions? Greedy Capitalists? Hello? OK ... I'm awake!
Wuh?
Obama has been saying that the nation should be on the health insurance that is used by the govt, by Congress.
This would save business about $1,000/year depending on how many employees they have.
Outsourcing is GREAT for business profits but they neglect to figure in the fact that if fewer people are employed this means fewer people can afford to purchase goods and services. Business declines nationally ... less biz = less profits = shoulda kept the jobs here.
The govt is still covering my health care through MediCare ... but they are threatening to cut it severely. California is now begging the Federal govt to give it a bailout but the govt claims they have no more money available, and yet it would only take a "quick print" of $26 billion for California to go back to normal and keep my medical coverage in tact. The govt pays about $20,000 year for my coverage. I could pay that myself IF I could get a job. But it seems that the Mexicans get hired first if they are willing to work for minimum wage or less ... next it's the kids who will work for school wages ... then the rest of the 18-30 work force who will work for minimum wage ... and right now that's about all the jobs they have. No jobs for older people who require higher wages. Business no longer wants to deliver a quality product. So they hire newbies who need to be trained and the whole nation suffers b/c our businesses cannot afford to hire descent labor. What they forget is that with my experience I could do the work of two people, or more, thus saving them quite a bit of money but they don't look at that anymore.
You want to know the solution? GE needs to make more wind generators in THIS country. Companies like Exxon who are fat with cash need to buy one or two of GM's closed plants and turn the lights back on and change the molds to produce the new bodies for the new electric vehicles. Do you know that Aptera makes a car that gets 300 mpg? And an electric model that uses no gas at all?They're only $25,000 and up. Cheap! But think of it ... you could go from California to New York (4,000 miles?) and back (8,000 miles total) for $80. How much do YOU spend on gas to go to work? What if you got TEN TIMES better gas mileage? YOU would spend less ... the manufacturers would save on shipping ... UPS could lower their prices if gas were cheaper for them ... EVERYONE would pay less if we could get fuel prices DOWN!
So, Exxon could supplement their income by producing electric and fuel efficient vehicles. Why hasn't anyone mentioned a nuclear car? I would think by now they would have a little pellet they could put in an engine and have it run for 5 years or more. Is there such a thing as recycling the nuclear waste? Can it be reused in commercial vehicles?
GE could also go in partners with Exxon to make solar cells for ALL the homes in America. Since the govt likes giving money away they could cover the roof tops of America with solar panels that are made by the energy companies and charge people the SAME monthly power fees but instead of losing that forever, the families would be paying off their solar panels. Make them payable over 20 years. Monthly power bills should remain about the same and after 20 years, when they are paid off, the panels will still have 5-10 years of life left and then there would be another business boom when people replace the old units.
GE would cover all the areas with wind, but few residents. Who wants to live on a windy mtn? Why not put windmills everywhere there is wind. Put solar panels everywhere else. Sell off the excess power to Canada and Mexico.
AND THEN, the govt needs to legalize marijuana and produce as much hemp as possible. The BEST oil for cars is HEMP OIL! Do you know your car will run with NO major maintenance for 500,000 miles if you used Hemp Oil instead of petro oil. If they can make oil out of it, couldn't they make fuel out of it. Instead of using corn for fuel, FEED corn to the people and grow WEEDS to produce fuel. This country could be covered in weed plants, like back in 1920, and the govt could make rope and fuel and oil products for the country by hiring some defunct company to come back to life and produce this stuff that is so vital to the country and at the same time they could employ more people. Win Win Situation!
If businesses had solar cells on their rooftops and could save $3-5,000 per month on utility costs wouldn't this offset a LOT of their costs? Next to labor I would venture to say that utility costs come in a close second to rent/lease fees. IF business wanted to have the solar cells installed immediately by the govt and then pay a monthly fee to repay the govt it would still save them a lot. OR they could use the tax credits to buy solar and install it themselves.
Nuclear fuel cells are now available that will power entire neighborhoods. You put the
Mansions? Greedy Capitalists? Hello? OK ... I'm awake!
Wuh?
Obama has been saying that the nation should be on the health insurance that is used by the govt, by Congress.
This would save business about $1,000/year depending on how many employees they have.
Outsourcing is GREAT for business profits but they neglect to figure in the fact that if fewer people are employed this means fewer people can afford to purchase goods and services. Business declines nationally ... less biz = less profits = shoulda kept the jobs here.
The govt is still covering my health care through MediCare ... but they are threatening to cut it severely. California is now begging the Federal govt to give it a bailout but the govt claims they have no more money available, and yet it would only take a "quick print" of $26 billion for California to go back to normal and keep my medical coverage in tact. The govt pays about $20,000 year for my coverage. I could pay that myself IF I could get a job. But it seems that the Mexicans get hired first if they are willing to work for minimum wage or less ... next it's the kids who will work for school wages ... then the rest of the 18-30 work force who will work for minimum wage ... and right now that's about all the jobs they have. No jobs for older people who require higher wages. Business no longer wants to deliver a quality product. So they hire newbies who need to be trained and the whole nation suffers b/c our businesses cannot afford to hire descent labor. What they forget is that with my experience I could do the work of two people, or more, thus saving them quite a bit of money but they don't look at that anymore.
You want to know the solution? GE needs to make more wind generators in THIS country. Companies like Exxon who are fat with cash need to buy one or two of GM's closed plants and turn the lights back on and change the molds to produce the new bodies for the new electric vehicles. Do you know that Aptera makes a car that gets 300 mpg? And an electric model that uses no gas at all?They're only $25,000 and up. Cheap! But think of it ... you could go from California to New York (4,000 miles?) and back (8,000 miles total) for $80. How much do YOU spend on gas to go to work? What if you got TEN TIMES better gas mileage? YOU would spend less ... the manufacturers would save on shipping ... UPS could lower their prices if gas were cheaper for them ... EVERYONE would pay less if we could get fuel prices DOWN!
So, Exxon could supplement their income by producing electric and fuel efficient vehicles. Why hasn't anyone mentioned a nuclear car? I would think by now they would have a little pellet they could put in an engine and have it run for 5 years or more. Is there such a thing as recycling the nuclear waste? Can it be reused in commercial vehicles?
GE could also go in partners with Exxon to make solar cells for ALL the homes in America. Since the govt likes giving money away they could cover the roof tops of America with solar panels that are made by the energy companies and charge people the SAME monthly power fees but instead of losing that forever, the families would be paying off their solar panels. Make them payable over 20 years. Monthly power bills should remain about the same and after 20 years, when they are paid off, the panels will still have 5-10 years of life left and then there would be another business boom when people replace the old units.
GE would cover all the areas with wind, but few residents. Who wants to live on a windy mtn? Why not put windmills everywhere there is wind. Put solar panels everywhere else. Sell off the excess power to Canada and Mexico.
AND THEN, the govt needs to legalize marijuana and produce as much hemp as possible. The BEST oil for cars is HEMP OIL! Do you know your car will run with NO major maintenance for 500,000 miles if you used Hemp Oil instead of petro oil. If they can make oil out of it, couldn't they make fuel out of it. Instead of using corn for fuel, FEED corn to the people and grow WEEDS to produce fuel. This country could be covered in weed plants, like back in 1920, and the govt could make rope and fuel and oil products for the country by hiring some defunct company to come back to life and produce this stuff that is so vital to the country and at the same time they could employ more people. Win Win Situation!
If businesses had solar cells on their rooftops and could save $3-5,000 per month on utility costs wouldn't this offset a LOT of their costs? Next to labor I would venture to say that utility costs come in a close second to rent/lease fees. IF business wanted to have the solar cells installed immediately by the govt and then pay a monthly fee to repay the govt it would still save them a lot. OR they could use the tax credits to buy solar and install it themselves.
Nuclear fuel cells are now available that will power entire neighborhoods. You put the
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