Late last August 2 companions and I flew into Toronto to pick up a car to take back to Winnipeg.
We took in the following in the four days we had in the area. In Toronto we stopped at Meeplemart and Wheels and Wings Hobbies (for the plastic modelers with us). Unfortunately, we had to pass on Fort York.
In Hamilton we went to the HMCS Haida and the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum. From there out on the Niagara Peninsula with stops at Fort George and the battlefields of Chippawa (1814) and Ridgeway (1866). Lundy's Lane was an option abandoned due to time and Niagara Falls traffic.
While we did stop in the parking lot at Fort Erie it unfortunately was already closed at the time. Perhaps if we had not stopped for a leisurely lunch at an Irish brew pub in Niagara-on-the-Lake…
On our last day we headed out from Hamilton to spend time at the Great War Flying Museum, about 30 minutes north-west of Toronto at the Brampton Airport. The museum offers rides as a rear-gunner in their Sopwith 1½ Strutter, but the plane had been grounded that very morning due to a cracked generator mount – damn. They do have a very nice museum attached, and in our conversation with the assistant curator it turned out he also had a big interest in the War of 1812… We got invited to see his "collection" at his house, which scuttled a planned stop at Base Borden Military Museum just outside of Barrie.
From there two more days of driving north around Lake Superior with a stop at the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre in Sault Ste. Marie.
All in all a week well spent, in spite of being billed for roaming charges on my phone from when we were across the Niagara River from the US side. ???
