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Muskoka Calls

From Ontario

HAROLD JACOBSON
Special to The Jewish News

T'

he first thing that visitors
notice is the air — cool,
crisp, sweet, pine-scented
wafts of refreshing loveli-
ness. Mid-Ontario's unique climatic.i
attraction, which lasts from early
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May well into November, is a by-
product of an ecosystem whose com-
ponents include millions of acres of
forest land, hundreds of thousands of
cold water lakes, remoteness from the
great metropolitan areas and a natur
air conditioning system powered by
the remains of arctic breezes of the
region.
Canada's number two tourist
attraction (you can't beat Niagara
- Falls) can be accessed by car, bus,
train or plane from Toronto in less
than three hours. Ground transporta
tion, however, is preferable, because
the major arterial route, Highway 11,
which leads from Barrie into
Muskoka's all-year playground, pro-
vides numerous examples of farm 40
acreage, shimmering lakes, lowering
pines, spectacular rock formations
and squadrons of Canada geese — a
fitting introduction in miniature to 4
the beauty that awaits the traveler in
the mid-northern region of Ontario 1
triangulated by three major towns:
Huntsville, Gravenhurst and
Bracebridge.
Most of the major resorts, hotels,10
hunting lodges, fishing facilities and
Ontario's famous Algonquin Park are
within one hour's automobile drive
from these areas. There are few plac
in the world that can provide the
Muskoka area's bountiful harvest of
animal life, fisheries and birds. An
ornithologist has identified more
than 450 species of birds which nes-
tle in mid-northern Ontario during gl
the spring, summer and fall seasons.
Botanists have recorded more than
100 different kinds of flora and fauna
that dot the landscape. Wild straw-
berries and blueberries proliferate in 4
season. The region's lakes are over-
crowded with small mouth bass, rain-
bow trout, pickerel and at least five
other fighting species. True, the
biggest catches are to be found nort4114
of the Muskoka region, but in lakes
accessible only by plane; however,
there are enough other road-accessi-
ble fish-filled lakes to go around.

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