Monday, June 1, 2009

Manitoulin Island - Largest Freshwater Island in the world

I remember driving to Manitoulin Island for quite a few years with my mom and a friend of hers from work. The trip there was always an adventure, at least to me it was. We would sometimes drive across the bridges via city of Sudbury going there and take the ferry back to the mainland in the town of Tobermory or take the ferry from Tobermory to Manitoulin Island going there and take the bridges. I remember many times getting stuck in traffic along highway 69 on the way to Sudbury. Seeing so many different things along the way no matter which choice we picked. The town of choice to rent the cottage was always in Providence Bay. What a lovely beach the village had right on Lake Huron. It was there that I always loved the fact that I could go fishing, swimming, hang out with some new friends while getting ice cream at Harbour Centre, all within a short walking distance.

Some facts about Manitoulin Island
Manitoulin Island is the largest freshwater island in the world. It has a population around 13,000 permanent residents that balloons to 50,000 during summer, mainly because of the popularity of boating, fishing and cottages that the island offers to tourists.


A quote from Manitoulin Island born Isabel Paterson b.1886, d. 1961
( novelist, newspaper columnist, and political analyst )

"Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission."

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