Tobermory, Bruce Peninsila

Just a note or two on things we missed along the way: in Nipigon we visited the Paddle to the Sea Park, very creative playground chronicling the children’s book, Denis remembers it well and I remember slightly, it must have been a boy thing.

Paddling to the sea?

 

 Then in White River we read the origin of the Winnie the Pooh stories, a WWI soldier, veterinarian from Winnipeg, travelling by train to England to look after the military horses, bought an orphaned bear cub for $20. He took her with him and when he was sent to France he left her at the London Zoo where she became a favourite especially with Christopher Milne, son of the author.


Winnie the Pooh's origins

 

In Wawa, a mining town, they even had a short gold rush, an Earl and Lady lived there today their claim to fame is a huge Canada goose (statue), it rivals the one in Dunrae.

 

                                                       Under the Big Nickel

 The guardian of the pathway at Sleeping Giant Park

We finished our tour of Manitoulin Island, it was pretty quiet but I bet in the summer it’s bumper to bumper traffic on very narrow streets and roads. This morning took the ferry, Chi Cheemaun, from South Baymouth to Tobermory.