Loughbreeze Bay B&B

Archive for August, 2011

Just like the ocean waves

Here at Loughbreeze B&B we are trying to accept the idea that we are not just a luxurious B&B, with a fantastic hostel attached, located on The North Shore of Lake Ontario half way between Toronto and Kingston. We are history in the making and we strive to help you keep your history facts straight. Every visitor to Loughbreeze B&B and Ontario Cycling Hostel, Canadian, American, Brit, European, African, Asian, Aussie and South American is fascinated by Lake Ontario.

Lake Ontario seems to go on forever!

It’s depth and breadth are among the first questions. How do those Ocean Sailing Ships travel from ports around the world find their way around Niagara Falls to Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit and the Canadian ports of Thunder Bay and Sault St. Marie in Lake Superior? Well it happens by way of the five great lakes with a series of canals and inland waterways all with their own locks to raise and lower the ships.

Entrance to the Trent Canal System

The Great St. Lawrence Seaway Locks located east of Cornwall, Ontario reaching across to the US allowed ocean freighters to penetrate 2300 miles into the North American Continent to deliver and pick up cargo. The Eisenhower Locks considered to be one of the greatest engineering projects ever created are our current day St. Lawrence Seaway miracle. Click on the links below and read the fabulous history of The St. Lawrence Seaway.

We took this at Wicklow Beach. Can you identify this ship?

Here at Loughbreeze B&B and Ontario Cycling Hostel on the Great Lake Ontario we are looking forward to seeing you. All best wishes.

http://adrageous.com/seaway/page1.html www.greatlakes-seaway.com/en/seaway/history/index.html www.1000islandsinfo.com/pictures.htm /
www.stlawrenceriver.ca/slr-lostvillages.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Villages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lawrence_Seaway www.ghosttownpix.com/lostvillages/project.html

Canadians are becoming more familiar with the HOSTEL concept. In Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and South America hostels are very prominent. Back packers, cyclist, hikers and mountain climbers all use hostels. “Elder Hostel” is a North American tour organizer who promotes Hostel group travel all over the world. Here in Canada Cyclists are carving the path to Hostels and many of the cyclist and cycling groups visit Ontario Cycling Hostel which is the unit operated by Loughbreeze B&B. Naturally you can learn all about our hostel on our web site. What a great spot to over night or even stay a couple of days. Located right on the North Shore of Lake Ontario between Toronto and Kingston, across Loughbreeze Bay from Presqu’ile Provincial Park, in beautiful Northumberland County, we are secluded privacy in the middle of everything. Recently we are seeing a very interesting trend at our Hostel. Just last week we had two MOM’s, it was their private GIRL’S get together, come and stay with their five (5) children all the while staying in touch on the net with our wireless connection. They loved the lake front fenced yard, swings and hammocks and the delights of playing in Lake Ontario’s beautiful water. The BIG BBQ was there to cook their burgers, hot dogs and chicken strips. They stocked the full size Hostel fridge made their own coffee, toast and had a ball. And yes, they visited marvellous Presqu’ile Provincial Park using our free pass. Hostel’s can provide you with an exciting alternative to Camping or the Motel experience. Come to Loughbreeze B&B and find the perfect holiday spot for your family. We are looking forward to seeing you.

RCAF Museum Trenton, Ontario

FLASHBACK……PIONEER WOMEN PILOTS

VI MILSTEAD WARREN, as written by Shirley Allen

About 99s E. Canada W. Canada Articles (Home) Profiles Home

Recent news: Vi Milstead to receive the Order of Canada

“OTTAWA – Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, announced July 29, 2004 79 new appointments to the Order of Canada, including three promotions within the Order. The new appointees include two Companions (C.C.), 22 Officers (O.C.) and 55 Members (C.M.). These appointments are in effect as of May, 13, 2004. Recipients will be invited to accept their insignia at a ceremony to be held at a later date.

Vi Milstead Warren, C.M. Colborne, Ontario, Member of the Order of Canada. “Renowned for her courage and determination, Vi Warren has been a role model and an inspiration to generations of pilots. In 1943 at the age of 24, she joined the British Air Transport Auxiliary and flew new fighter planes from factories to military bases across England and Allied Europe. She piloted 47 different types of aircraft, including Spitfires, Typhoons and Mosquitos, earning her the respect and admiration of her Royal Air Force peers. At war’s end, she resumed her career as a flight instructor and pilot in Ontario and later became one of Canada’s first women bush pilots.”

Shirley’s pioneer profile of Vi Milstead follows:

Born in Toronto, Ontario in October 1919, Vi learned to fly at the old Barker Field in Toronto (named after Canada’s most decorated WWI hero, Lt. Col. William Barker)

Vi passed her Private Pilot’s Flight Test, #3339 in December, 1939, her Commercial Licence in April, 1940 and earned her Instructor’s Rating at Trenton, Ontario in July, 1941.

Vi instructed at Barker Field until civilian flying ceased in Canada, due to wartime gas rationing in November, 1942.

She applied to BOAC in Montreal for service in the British Air Transport Auxiliary. At that time she had approximately 1,000 flying hours and easily passed her check out in the Harvard AT-6, going overseas in 1943 to ferry aircraft between manufacturers, maintenance facilities and Armed Forces’ units throughout Britain.

After preliminary training at ATA Headquarters, White Waltham Airfield in 1944, Vi was based at Cosford. She ferried 27 different types of single engine aircraft and 17 different types of advanced twin-engine aircraft, as a First Officer (equivalent to a Captain’s rank in the military) Most fondly remembered, the Spitfire and the deHavilland Mosquito.

When the war came to an end in May 1945, the Cosford base closed. Vi was transferred back to White Waltham Airfield and ferried similar aircraft between Britain and Europe till the end of June, 1945.

She returned to civilian instructing in Canada with Leavens Brothers Air Services at Barker Field in 1946. Vi married Arnold Warren in 1947 and they moved north to Sudbury to fly for Nickel Belt Airways. Vi taught flying on floats during the summer and skis during the winter. She flew the Fairchild Husky, interspersed with charter and bush flying in the north, was featured as one of Canada’s first female bush pilots and written up in several national aviation publications.

Followed a busy two years (1950-1952) The Warrens re-established the Windsor Flying Club. They then spent two years in Indonesia. Arnold was recruited by I.C.A.O. to be the CFI at the Indonesian Aviation Academy in Djakarta, Java. Both were back in Canada by the end of 1954, employed in the aviation industry in Toronto.

They continued to fly for recreation, owning a PA-12 then a Mooney, which they used to fly to their home in the picturesque Magdallen Islands in Quebec. They both retired in 1973. Vi was presented with an Amelia Earhart Medallion by the First Canadian Chapter of the 99s. In September, 1995, she was honoured by the Rusty Blakey Heritage Group at a Banquet in Sudbury, Ontario. There was a formal dedication of a granite plaque, with a nostalgic fly-by of seaplanes over the shore of Ramsey Lake, where bush flying was a way of life in the 40′s and early 50′s.

The Warrens, due to Arnold’s frail health, scaled down their living in the Nineties, from a large two-storey Victorian home in Colborne, to a smaller, custom built log house on the shores of Lake Ontario. Vi now lives alone, with an adopted black Labrador dog called Harriet and enjoys her gardening. She is a very modest lady, but enjoys talking about her experiences and wartime flying. (She was featured a year ago in a television documentary “A Time for Courage”) and was a special guest at the 99s East Canada Section’s 50th Anniversary Banquet on November, 18th, 2000 when “interviewed” by June Callwood, a well-known Toronto Journalist/Author and one of Vi’s early students.

www.cahf.ca/members/M_members.php

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTyFuNNqC1M

Tories putting Royal back in the navy, air force: reports

TORONTO Two divisions of Canada’s armed forces are being rechristened with the names they held for the better part of the first half of the 20th century, media reports said Monday.

Officials with the Department of National Defence refused to discuss reports that the air and maritime divisions will be known as the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Air Force for the first time since 1968.

Land Force Command, meanwhile, is to be known simply as the Canadian Army, Huffington Post Canada and the Halifax Chronicle Herald reported.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay is slated to make an announcement in Halifax on Tuesday, but departmental officials declined to confirm the reports or offer any other details.

The older names fell out of vogue more than 40 years ago when federal legislation brought the military’s three main branches together under the banner of the Canadian Forces.

If MacKay is indeed reversing that move, the news won’t be welcomed by the Royal Canadian Legion, said spokesman Bob Butt.

Some veterans have long campaigned to reinstate the old names, but the legion has opposed further changes on the grounds that the money could be better spent elsewhere, Butt said.

“One administrative change is enough,” Butt said. “We felt that … the funds would be better used to equip our sailors, soldiers and airmen.”

MacKay’s announcement in Halifax is to be echoed simultaneously at news conferences in Kingston, Valcartier, Que., Cold Lake, Alta., and Esquimalt, B.C.

The Canadian Press

It's a very long lunch

Maybe in your dreams you had your lunch in the middle of Main Street but in Warkworth, minutes from Loughbreeze B&B, having lunch with hundreds of other fine folks all seated at a very long table on the main drag is reality on August 21, 11:30 til 3:00 (You must call to reserve 1-888-653-1556). We will be there and hope you will too. You will find Warkworth is a community full of amazing annual surprises with lots of ever present unique shops.

We followed these beautiful Ladies as they explored

For starters, consider the Maple Syrup Festival in March complete with free bus transportation, horse and wagon rides in the woods where you will watch the making of great syrup and sample superb pancakes with sausage. Don’t forget the Spring Lilac Festival with 75+ recently planted new varieties of lilacs.

Great Warkworth Wall Art

How about the Donnybrook in June? Fun, fun and more fun as a huge garage sale, it rivals anything you have ever seen, all followed by an auction with 20 auctioneers to sell you your favourite treasure. This weekend Warkworth is having a beach party. Well you say, Warkworth has no beach. Hardly an impediment to this town. Yes, but they are promising palm trees, cabañas, sand and fun for everyone. For this special occasion the Warkworth Arena becomes the Warkworth Beach. The good people of Warkworth know how to thow a party. And we can tell you, do not miss visiting this exotic town. Here at Loughbreeze B&B located on the North Shore of Lake Ontario in Colborne, Ontario, part of the Greater Northumberland County Area, we are Lake Ontario serenity in the middle of everything. We are looking forward to seeing you.

Cirque is truly racing with the moon. With 20+ shows happening all over the globe The Cirque du Soleil, with “Totem” opening in Toronto this week, is an unmatched phenomena. “Totem” has opened to rave reviews. One reporter has written that the success of “Totem” may well create a new impetus for people to once again consider running away to join the circus. Consider the mammoth job of staging a major theatrical production and then multiply by 20 and then spread those 22 shows around the world. This is True unmatched Cirque du Soleil! Visit their web site www.cirquedusoleil.com for information on their dramatic mix of circus arts and street entertainment including scenes from many of the shows along with company information. You could consider your new and latest career move by joining Cirque! Loughbreeze B&B, secluded privacy on Northumberland’s North Shore of Lake Ontario, we are smack dab in the middle of everything, salutes Cirque and sends best wishes to all. We are looking forward to seeing you.

In many ways it seems life is spinning fast and faster. Technology has certainly put us all on the fast track as our space exploration explores the moon and planet. Imagine how the internet and computers have transformed our lives. Cell phones now have more power and features than early computers. Medically our progress has been just as impressive. Artificial hearts, and transplants and the dedicated work of organizations like “Rotary International and their cycling program “Petal Out Polio” with financial support from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Thanks to the incredible work of The Rotary International only one case of the feared and dreaded disease POLIO has been reported world wide this year. Congrats Rotary! You made it happen. All best wishes from Loughbreeze B&B.
http://pottsvillerotary.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/rotary-pedals-out-polio-pottsville/ http://pottsvillerotary.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/2012-2013-rotary-interntional-president-announced/

Reserve our Wedding Chapel for that special occasion!

Here at Loughbreeze B&B,  secluded privacy in the middle of everything,  we are now offering our treasured guests and local residents, Northumberland Country’s most beautiful our amphitheatre Marriage Chapel.  From our bank, on the North Shore of Lake Ontario, over looking Loughbreeze Bay and Presqu’ile Provincial Park we are the start point for the rest of your happy life.   Build your memories from the Paradise of Loughbreeze B&B.

Imagine Yourself Here at Loughbreezebay B&B

Full facilities and gracious hosts are available to cater to your hearts desires.   Contact us to discuss your plans and learn about this great facility.   We are looking forward to seeing you very soon.   www.loughbreezebay.com We are the small to medium intimate wedding specialists in Trenton, Quinte West, Prince Edward County offering all ancillary services right on Lake Ontario.

Waiting for the Surfers.

Here it is!  An incredible source of educational information about Presqu’ile Provincial Park.  On ‘You Tube’ you can visit The Park from your computer no matter where you are.  From ‘You Tube’ you will see up front and close details of The Park.  Watch the building of the new and refurbished board walk.  Meet the “friends” who contributed so much to the success of Ontario’s incredible Provincial Park.

www.friendsofpresquile.on.ca/you-tube-c445.php

Welcome to Loughbreeze B&B plus Ontario Cycling Hostel.  Located in beautiful Northumberland County we are right on the shore of Lake Ontario.   Cool summer breezes and wondrous Lake Ontario await your visit.  We have cycling maps for the entire area where you can take on the challenging back road hills or traverse Ontario’s fabulous Water Front Trail reaching from Niagara Falls to the Quebec boarder.  The Waterfront Trail is a great summer’s ride and there are hundreds of activities along the way.

Sign at nearby Wicklow Beach

Come and enjoy the pleasures of Colborne, Brighton, Presqu’ile Provincial Park, Grafton and Cobourg.  We will treat you right.    www.ontariocyclinghostel.com   or   www.loughbreezebay.com    or    www.friendsofpresquile.on.ca

On the Road Again!