Hi Mark! I love your videos. I am a fan of small towns which is why I moved to one! I live in Hawkesbury, Ontario, and I’d love you to do a video here too!
I had an aunt and uncle who lived in a house everyone called "Ingleside". The town was named after the house. I don't know the precise location, but my mother's diaries tell of her train trips with her mother to Aultsville, and being met by a horse & buggy and being driven to the nearby house. The house dated back to at least the 1800s, but was too big to be moved, and so was flooded. My aunt and uncle received excellent compensation, and had a house in Morrisburg (it might have been Cornwall - I had relatives there too). I think some historic buildings also ended up at Upper Canada Village. I still remember walking around on the almost dry riverbed and huge rocks before they blew up the temporary dam. In the early 60s, we would have family drives and picnics every second or third Saturday during the summer, to one of the beaches along the Long Sault Parkway. At the time - you needed a permit to drive on the road (maybe you still do?) - we had a season pass.
Long Sault population is 2100, Ingleside is 1500. Finally found it. According to a local of Ingleside the layout is not quite the same as what broadcaster Harvey kirck had said. He called them modern shoebox communities created to house by choice those displaced by the international flooding of the Seaway. They both served the same purpose.
Hi Mark! I love your videos. I am a fan of small towns which is why I moved to one! I live in Hawkesbury, Ontario, and I’d love you to do a video here too!
I had an aunt and uncle who lived in a house everyone called "Ingleside". The town was named after the house. I don't know the precise location, but my mother's diaries tell of her train trips with her mother to Aultsville, and being met by a horse & buggy and being driven to the nearby house. The house dated back to at least the 1800s, but was too big to be moved, and so was flooded.
My aunt and uncle received excellent compensation, and had a house in Morrisburg (it might have been Cornwall - I had relatives there too). I think some historic buildings also ended up at Upper Canada Village. I still remember walking around on the almost dry riverbed and huge rocks before they blew up the temporary dam.
In the early 60s, we would have family drives and picnics every second or third Saturday during the summer, to one of the beaches along the Long Sault Parkway. At the time - you needed a permit to drive on the road (maybe you still do?) - we had a season pass.
Long Sault population is 2100, Ingleside is 1500. Finally found it. According to a local of Ingleside the layout is not quite the same as what broadcaster Harvey kirck had said. He called them modern shoebox communities created to house by choice those displaced by the international flooding of the Seaway. They both served the same purpose.