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Question for you people in Southern Ontario. We are thinking of a little vacation time next fall and we normally do a factory tour + other attractions. We probably cross over in Detroit and come back at Buffalo. Open to any ideas. Then looking for something compareable on the American side. Thanks in advance. J.
 
Oil museums are pretty interesting around here, one in Oil Springs and one in Bothwell. If you're willing to drive a while you could venture up to the Cockshutt factory in Brantford, probably a 3 1/3 hour drive from Detroit though. July 30-31 is the East Kent Vintage show in Ridgetown. Of course, there's the famous Bothwell Car show as well if you're interested in that sort of thing. The SWOTPA usually has a tractor pull every 1-2 weeks. Paris also has a very decent farm show. Then, there's Niagara falls too if you haven't seen it yet.
 
There is the IPM http://www.ipm2012.ca/ . The CN tower. Niagara Falls with the Maid of the Mist. The John Deere 175th at Grimsby in June. A dozen or so steam shows,the one in Blyth is rather well presented. Some micro breweries in Kitchener, Neustadt and Formosa. Numerous wineries from Hamilton to Windsor.
A web search using Ontario and Tourism yielded several sites.
You could spend every day all summer seeing something new in southern Ontario.
Sorry no skiing or Polar Bear hunting.
 
Farm show in Woodstock is one of the biggest now, in think. I like it over the International Plowing Match. First drilled oil well, in Oil Springs, not much to look at, kind of cool thats where it all started. If you come through at Port Huron, then through to Buffalo, you"ll be close to cottage country, lots of nice small towns. Blyth theatre generally has a good play going, sometimes locally written and based, not based like romeo and juliet stuff. Along the lake you have some nice stops, Grandbend, Goderich... hgwy 21. Bruce trail if your up for a walk. Steve Plunketts car show is really amazing, its earlier though. Google that one. a good flea market in Barrie. St.jacobs area, wifey will like that, market on thursday (livestock) menniote area. Stratford, a real shakespear theatre.

Sometimes you take things for granted when you drive by them on a regular basis. But when you stop and look, actually pretty cool. I think that you can order a tourism mag from the gov. website?
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b&d: i may be the only one who got your last line. i grew up in windsor and have many, many stories to tell...
 
Oil museums are pretty interesting around here, one in Oil Springs and one in Bothwell. If you're willing to drive a while you could venture up to the Cockshutt factory in Brantford, probably a 3 1/3 hour drive from Detroit though. July 30-31 is the East Kent Vintage show in Ridgetown. Of course, there's the famous Bothwell Car show as well if you're interested in that sort of thing. The SWOTPA usually has a tractor pull every 1-2 weeks. Paris also has a very decent farm show. Then, there's Niagara falls too if you haven't seen it yet.[/quote]

Jordan,

You wouldn't happen to be from Goderich would you?
 
Oil museums are pretty interesting around here, one in Oil Springs and one in Bothwell. If you're willing to drive a while you could venture up to the Cockshutt factory in Brantford, probably a 3 1/3 hour drive from Detroit though. July 30-31 is the East Kent Vintage show in Ridgetown. Of course, there's the famous Bothwell Car show as well if you're interested in that sort of thing. The SWOTPA usually has a tractor pull every 1-2 weeks. Paris also has a very decent farm show. Then, there's Niagara falls too if you haven't seen it yet.[/quote]

Jordan,

You wouldn't happen to be from Goderich would you?[/quote]

There are at four of us here that live within an hour of Goderich.
 
I believe that your favorite tractors are Olivers/cockshut, if so,Jim & Guy Heaslips "Hart-Parr Haven" in Nelles Corners would be a must see. Nelles Corners is on #3 Highway,between Jarvis and Cayuga approx 5 miles north of the Lake Erie shore line. This is a lifelong collection of a former Oliver dealer.
 
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