I mentioned Maple Island in the post below. This is a pleasant spot to retire from the crowds in summer and sit on the bank under the trees. Beavers, muskrats, turtles, herons and swans also appreciate the relative privacy of its banks and last summer a family of geese with thirteen goslings chose to make a home there for a while.
If you walk to the tip of the small island you'll find a monument that commemorates the welcome of some 40,000 Hungarian immigrants who came to Canada at the time of the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. I have met a few of them. The monument has only stood on the island for the last four years or so, however.
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