The road tracklog 
from Steinbach to Thunder Bay
on 05/09/201

The first Europeans arrived in the area in the 17th century, they were French. The British established their forts as in the 18th century. This province is big as twice France with nearly 13 million inhabitants. The capital is Toronto.

I left Steinbach well before the sunrise. First Monday of September is a public holiday -Labour Day- Visitor Center on the move were closed. Consequently I did not have a map of the province, only a road atlas to establish my way. I made an error because this is an American atlas and the distances which I calculated were not in km but in miles! In this first day I crossed landscapes of forest certainly very beautiful but without attraction to justify a stop. I stopped on a carpark after Thunder Bay.

Ontario, ON
Hwy #17 
05/09/2011 

Lake Superior
Hwy #17 
06/09/2011 

The second day, still a morning departure, the road skirted the Lake Superior with many vacation resorts for fishermen, but deserted in this day. There too the landscape were very beautiful, but I had much road to drive. I found a bivouac at Marple Ridge.

Fog at 9:00 am 
Hwy #17 
07/09/2011 

The third day -2 thousandth days on the trip round the world- was long as the precedents and without interest, I drove. Crossed through Toronto posed no problem, I had decided to go directly to the Niagara Falls where I arrived under a drizzle rain around 6:30 pm at the KOA Campground. The first two days had been sunny after dissipation of the morning fogs generated by the many lakes in the area. I had traversed 2238 km in three days.

The Niagara Falls everyone dreams, well yes it is great. They are the consequence of the difference in level -100 meters- between the Lake Erie and the Lake Ontario forming a natural border between the province of Ontario, Canada and the state of New York, the USA. I made the tourist by buying the Adventure Pass promising four attractions. The first is a trip behind the waterfalls while going down in the mountain by an elevator then while walking in a tunnel to lead behind the water curtain falling into a noise deafening from thunder, very spectacular. In the tunnel some interpretative signs of which that of the erosion of Horseshoe Fall.

Tunnel
Niagara Falls 
08/09/2011 

Erosion of the Horseshoe Fall
Niagara Falls 
08/09/2011 

The second attraction is a film in 4D explaining the creation of the falls with a journey in time –10,000 years ago– and a performance in a room with precipitations of snow, of watering and earthquakes, exceptional (one pay to be made sprinkle, as receiving slaps) of course No Photo.

2^e attraction
Niagara Falls 
08/09/2011 

On the move I met two strange animals.

The third attraction is a voyage in boat by meeting the falls in  noise and water projection, the boat sails at the foot of the falls, fortunately for these three attractions the tourist receives a poncho each time of different color.

The last one is to four km away, they are white water howling by descending the sown rocky gorge.

Alas the back country lost its wilderness for the North American “make money”, synthesis of Las Vegas and Disney World, afflicting!

Above the gorge 
Niagara Falls 
08/09/2011 

At the end of the afternoon I returned to the KOA Campground, my eyes fulfilled with marvelous, my ears filled with noise and my face covered with water, unforgettable.

Toronto is the biggest city in Canada with 4,5 million inhabitants. The French Etienne Brûlé was the first European in 1616. A fur trade post was established in 1720. But in 1793 the British took over the French by founding the town of York which was renamed Toronto in 1834. Until 1941 80% of the population was Anglo-Celtic, now it is pluri-ethnic and that is seen, all skin colors of people in the world are represented.

The road tracklog 
from Niagara Falls to Toronto
on 09/09/2011

On Friday September 09 I left KOA Campground to go to McDo to publish my website, because the connection at KOA blocked FTP function Then I headed towards Toronto where I did not have a point of fall, I thus went to KOA Toronto West where I learned that there was a free carpark at Yorkdale Shopping Center at the Yorkdale subway station. I went there, I stationed my truck on the big carpark hoping to be able to remain three nights. By waiting I was going to take my reference marks in the Centre where I studied my visit of Toronto in two days. The good weather seemed returned, hoping that it lasts two days.

The first day of visit of Toronto was sunny and warm. The opening of the CN Tower was at 9 a.m. It is 553m high, record height which it held during 30 years. The elevator spends 58 seconds to reach the Look Out at 346m then Sky Pod at 447m. the bird's eye view in 360° is superb by this clear day. I did not satisfy a spectacle. The visit of a city requires the use of public transport as well as long walking.

Monument to Multiculturalism 
Toronto 
107/09/2011 

Skyline 
Toronto 
107/09/2011 

The second visit was at Art Gallery of Ontario – AGO– It is undoubtedly the largest art gallery in Canada. Levels 5, 4 and 3 are dedicated to a temporary exhibit devoted to a retrospective of the group “General Idea” from 1969 to 1994. Of course Photo No, I stole some but I was recalled to the order at that moment the walkie-talkies functioned, I were marked at my short pants knowing that I did not pass unperceived! The other levels are sets of themes of the adequacy of art to the creation of Canada and the relations of the power with art. European painting is largely represented with Flemish, Germanic, Italian schools and of course French, in particular the impressionists. I passed more than four hours in this temple of art, I do not have all considering it was only an overview.

Art Gallery of Ontario 
Toronto 
107/09/2011 

Two out of three died of AIDS 
Toronto 
107/09/2011 

Inuit sculpture 
Toronto 
107/09/2011 

Near to the Chinese district I went there. A festival occupied the pavements with Asian trinket stands and of puffs out ad hoc.

At the end of the afternoon I strolled on the edge of the Lake Ontario where the docks had been shaved and replaced by theaters, cinemas, restaurants and condominiums. I returned to the carpark at Yorkdale harassed but happy of this rich day, the following day was another day.

From Union Station to Nathan Philips Square I walked the head in the air to look at the High buildings. In a street a Art Deco building is survivor of the bulldozers. Of course the icon of Toronto –CN Tower– is omnipresent. This second day was also sunny.

CN Tower 
Toronto 
11/09/2011 

While walking to go & assist to the ceremony of the Remembrance of September 11, 2001 from the terrorist attack against Twin Towers in New York I took pictures of the old City Hall and frontage  preserved in a glass & iron structure. The ceremony took place in front of the new City hall, after speeches, an official sang a song a capella, touching.

 
Toronto 
11/09/2011 

In neighborhoods I paid a visit to the Anglican Church of The Holy Trinity.

Back to Toronto Dominion Centre I admired Inuit sculptures in the mezzanine of Waterhouse Tower.

Sculpture Inuit 
Toronto 
11/09/2011 

Always while strolling on University Ave I remained disconcerted by the architecture of the Provincial Legislature as well as a church embedded in a building.

Royal Ontario Museum –ROM– is installed in a Renaissance building whose extension exploded out of crystals! As the AGO it is the largest in Canada and its collections are of a great interest which it is impossible to see in only one visit. I concentrated on Canada and the First Nations, Asian art and Byzantium. I returned to the carpark tired but happy of this astonishing day.

Royal Ontario Museum, ROM 
Toronto 
11/09/2011