Approximately 99 locks, one marine railway, 3,827 geese, more than 100 tiny towns, and countless new friends and acquaintances. That’s just a small portion of what we encountered on our three-month, 1,600-nautical-mile summer cruise through portions of Canada’s Great Lakes and historic canals: from the Erie Canal into Lake Ontario and the Thousand Islands archipelago, the Rideau Canal to Ottawa, the Trent-Severn Waterway, Georgian Bay and the North Channel of Lake Huron, before re-entering the United States and proceeding to Lake Michigan.
Canada’s inland waterways are renowned as some of the most beautiful cruising in North America. Generally speaking, the water is crystal clear and tends to be deep, often dropping to 50 or more feet within yards of the shoreline. Despite the depth, many of the most popular cruising…
