Articles from October 2011

We have just completed our Canadian Thanksgiving. We remember cooking our turkey on a cold icy morning, or a windy and blustery day, but this past weekend was just like summer 2011 – warm, sunny and far too nice to be putting on shutters or closing down the water system!

I want to take this opportunity, on behalf of our fellow islanders, our cruising sailors, and the nearby mainlanders, to thank all the marina operators, local business ...

Six blindfolded men and women board a boat in the middle of the St. Lawrence River and are taken to a century-old castle...

Have you been to Clayton lately? If not, you are probably missing out on some interesting sights along the water. For...

Mix well: Seven months and $400,000. Add one motel owner, a lawyer and partner with a small boat company. Strain and pre...

“Sure is,” he said. “That was a hard crash. When I woke up in the ambulance and saw that white ceiling and the light, I thought ...

Augusta Cecconi-Bates is known as a composer of operas and operettas. Her most recent operettas were not only written in the Thousand Islands, but were inspired by characters

“If there’s that much trash in this one little area, then how much is in the entire river?” asked a spectator on a Septe...

The 1000 Islands is a playground for a multitude of summer water-based activities. Swimming, rowing, kayaking, wake-boar...

Without the motor power, we still felt the boat dancing on the rocks and getting pushed around by the waves.

“So spooky to see boats just sitting on the bottom, waiting for the end of time”, was the reaction of one of the visitor...

It is not often that we hear that legislators and/or government officials in the United States and Canada are “doing som...