Showing posts with label Gananoque Weekend. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gananoque Weekend. Show all posts

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Leaving Rockport.

Waiting for the boat. No, it's not January!
Outward bound.
1000 Island living.

Views from the "Skydeck" in 1000 Islands




We had a lot of humidity that day, so the mist and haze came with it.

Scenes off the "1000 Islands Parkway"





Gananoque





Colonel Joel Stone, who served with Loyalist militia during the American Revolutionary War, established a settlement on this site in 1789. Land was granted to Col. Stone for use as a mill site.
During the War of 1812, American forces raided the government depot in the town to disrupt the flow of British supplies between Kingston and Montreal. The stores seized consisted of half an ox, a few straw ticks, and a few blankets. The raiders seized the supplies they found and burned the depot.
Mrs. Stone reportedly protected her jewels from the invaders by hiding them in the flour at the mill.
Within a month of the raid construction of the Gananoque Blockhouse was begun, with completion in 1813. It had an octagonal log parapet containing five guns. The blockhouse was abandoned after the War of 1812 and given to a private landowner.
Credit to Wikipedia.

Gananoque


We stayed here in a B+B the other weekend. This was the view from our window. overlooking the cruise boat dock and the St Lawrence River.