Vancouver Island
This town is called the surfing capital of Canada
Tofino
On the shores of this lake you can find a form of rock art created by picking or carving images into the rock
Stoney Lake
The Trent-Severn waterway begins and ends in what two bays?
Bay of Quinte and Georgian Bay
The geological name for the glacier-formed rolling hills of Northumberland county
Drumlins (oval or elongated in shaped. Up to 2km long)
David Foster (music producer)
Victoria, Vancouver Island
The name of the strait between Vancouver Island and the mainland
Georgia Strait
This conservation area on the Indian river is famous for this spelunking attraction
Warsaw Caves
This town on the waterway was famous for building canoes that were sold around the world
Peterborough. Peterborough Canoe Company and Ontario Canoe Company
Name specifically one of the two types of fish that swim up the Ganaraska River to spawn
Rainbow Trout, Chinook Salmon
Neil Young (musician)
Omemee, Kawartha Lakes
This island off the SE coast is a popular home for celebrities
Salt Springs Island (Randy Bachman, Robert Bateman, Arthur Black)
This town was named in 1834 after a surveyor’s assistant who died from infection after accidentally being shot in the leg
Lindsay
The lock at Big Chute isn’t actually a lock. What is it?
Marine railway.
This scenic driving route was established in 1995 to promote tourism around a certain crop of the region
Apple Route
Stephen Leacock (author)
Lake Couchiching, Trent-Severn
Highest mountain on Vancouver Island
Golden Hinde (7,201ft). Arrowsmith was 5,968ft)
Where could you see “the constellations reveal themselves, one star at a time”?
Bobcaygeon
What is so special about St Peter’s on-the-rock Anglican church?
Good sized church (225 cap) located on tiny island (150m x 50m).105 yrs old. Located at Hell’s gate channel in Stoney Lake
This town used to be called Hamilton but was renamed in 1818 in recognition of the marriage between the princess of Wales to a German Prince
Cobourg. Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Farley Mowat (author)
Port Hope, Northumberland County
Site of Canada’s largest ever underwater explosion
Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows. 1,200 mt of explosives. 1958.
What tribe of First Nations people historically lived throughout the Kawarthas?
The Mississaugas
The engineer who designed the Peterborough and Kirkfield lift locks
Richard Rogers. Adopted the design from existing hydraulic lift locks in Belgium
Just under the surface of Rice Lake you can find the remnants of this 19th century construction
Trestle bridge pilings for the railway that bisects Rice Lake from N to S. Cobourg & Peterborough Rail Road Company. 1853
Catherine Parr Traill (“Backwoods of Canada” 1836)
Gores Landing, Rice Lake, Trent-Severn (or Northumberland county)