Canada's largest butter tart festival celebrating the quintessential Canadian dessert - the Butter Tart! The sweetest day of the year includes a contest crowning Ontario's BEST butter tart, 200 vendors, 200,000 butter tarts available for sale, live entertainment and much more. Admission-free and family friendly. Visit beautiful Midland on the shores of Georgian Bay for the Annual Ontario's Best Butter Tart Festival!
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The Wye Marsh Wildlife Centre is located on 3,000 acres of Provincially Significant Wetlands and woodlands in Tay, Ontario in the Heart of Georgian Bay. Visitors of all ages and abilities are encouraged to discover raptors & reptiles in our interpretive display hall, explore our hiking, cross country ski & snowshoeing trails, experience canoeing & kayaking on a guided tour through the marsh channels, visit the observation tower, floating boardwalks, waterfowl monitoring platform, wildflower gardens, the bee house and so much more.
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The roots of Discovery Harbour date back to 1793, when Sir John Graves Simcoe scouted Penetanguishene Bay as a strategic site for a naval base. The steep-sided, deep water bay would be an ideal spot to protect and maintain ships. The bay could also serve as a vital transport link from York (Toronto) to the northwest.
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We are pleased to present this collection of superb lily, daylily, and peony varieties. If you have never visited our garden, we hope you will find the time this summer to do so. We feel that we have provided you with a sampling of what might greet you when you step out of your car. However, we could not hope to recreate the sensory experiences of visiting our display garden, in this virtual setting. During a visit to our garden, the scent and the rainbow of rich colours floods one's senses in such a way that makes it impossible to reproduce.
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Huronia Museum features a replica of a pre-contact" Huron/Ouendat village, including a lookout tower, wigwam and a full-size longhouse. The museum also features an exhibit gallery featuring tens of thousands of historic artifacts ranging from photographs, native archaeology, marine heritage of Georgian Bay and art by members of the Group of Seven, and others.
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Keewatin was one of six ships owned by Canadian Pacific Railways to sail the Upper Great Lakes. Begun in 1883 to link the eastern and western railheads, this line of ships populated the west and was specifically responsible for the economic development of Alberta and Saskatchewan that brought those provinces into Confederation in 1905 by providing vast numbers of immigrants plus equipment and supplies, and carrying millions of tons of grain to market in the east on their downward trips.
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Drayton Entertainment is a registered, not-for-profit charitable organization, and one of Canada's most successful professional theatre companies. From Broadway musicals, to laugh-a-minute comedies and riveting dramas, Drayton Entertainment presents the finest in live theatre for all ages on seven unique stages, at six venues, in five communities across Ontario: the Drayton Festival Theatre in Drayton, Hamilton Family Theatre Cambridge in Cambridge, Huron Country Playhouse in Grand Bend, King's Wharf Theatre in Penetanguishene, and St. Jacobs Country Playhouse and the Schoolhouse Theatre in St. Jacobs.
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Martyrs' Shrine is a subsidiary of the Jesuits in English Canada. The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is a religious order withing the Roman Catholic Church. The Canadian Martyrs' Shrine invigorates pilgrims through the story of the Martyrs and their companions, who lived the mission of Jesus Christ.Martyrs' Shrine is open to the public from the first Saturday of May to Thanksgiving Monday.
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The spell of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons lies in the very land upon which it stands. Located along the shores of Georgian Bay - Samuel de Champlain's "mer douce" - and surrounded by wooded hillsides, this was the ancestral homeland of the Huron Wendat nation, a branch of the Iroquoian family. The Wendat were a matrilineal society of good traders and skillful farmers who called their land Wendake - the land apart.
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