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The Great Inland Archipelago

On November 3, 2018

“Sometimes another world, like a secret garden, lies close at hand

but utterly unsuspected. So it is with our continent’s Great Inland Archipelago. A mere two-and-a-half hours drive from the eastern marches of the Greater Toronto Area, it may as well be worlds away. For this is a world all its own, where water and land meet in infinite combinations amidst a freshwater river, the mighty St. Lawrence, that’s more akin to a broad inlet of the sea than it is to a conventional river….”

Our travel essay on Gananoque & the Thousand Islands, “The Great Inland Archipelago,” accompanied by the breathtakingly beautiful photography of Ian Coristine, can be found at: https://artsforum.ca/travel/other-wanderers

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