Silver Creek Conservation Area (Scotsdale Farm)

Within the Silvercreek Conversation Area near the lovely and quaint town of Georgetown is a hidden treasure called Scotsdale Farm. It's a working farm, but there is so much more to this place.  For one thing, there is over 530 acres of gorgeous trails in and around the Niagara Escarpment.  

One of the most popular and largest trail here is the Bennett-heritage Trail.  Fall is the best time of the year.  For the simple abundance of colour, the crisp and cool air and the many photo opportunities you can capture if you are so inclined. 

             
We met up with a fellow photographer who had won a Canon contest while shooting here.  The sunsets here just rock through the trees.  Perfect setting - perfect lighting.  In fact this is a fave spot for many photographers and film producers.  Parking is free and ample as long as you are out of there by 8 p.m. at night when the park closes.

There are a few waterfall features here as well! 

Not in comparison to our friends out west in Hamilton or Niagara, but enough to keep your interest up.  Since it's part of the Bruce Trail network, you are bound to find plenty of rolling hills and woodlands and glacial rocky remnants to exercise your legs making it a great work out.

Halton Hills region has been a favourite for a few years now with so many conservation areas and things to do here all year long - set in a pastoral countryside.  

The main house of Scotsdale was built in 1836 by Christopher Cook. The farm was bequeathed to the Ontario Heritage Trust by Stewart and Violet Bennett in 1982.  Bennett had developed Scotsdale into an internationally renowned breeding farm for his Arabian horses and shorthorn beef cattle.

To learn more about the Bennetts and to the historical beginnings of this beautiful landscape which has  has been, click on the link below

Scotsdale Farm : A Hidden Treasure

Electric Radial Museum in Guelph

One of my favourite places to go is to visit historical sites.   I don't really have a particular interest in historical transportation - though you would know that considering the fact that this blog began a decade ago while traveling through Toronto on the TTC and blogging every station!  Still I do have a particular love for nostalgia and anything that reminds me of my childhood and in the advancement of modern civilization.

It's nice that there are museums like this that give new generations the opportunity to see how buses and rail trains once looked so that they too can have a glimpse into the past.

It was on a rainy Sunday early evening when we passed through the County of Halton when I first saw this working museum of electric streetcars, buses and trolleybuses.  It was too late in the day to make it a decent visit, so we didn’t buy tickets.  Though we did show up when one of the trolleys went by along the radial tracks that once provided the right of way in Guelph. 

The museum is open to the public – the focus is primarily on the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), with rides on many of its now retired vehicles. It is located in the town of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.  If you happen to pass through it might be fun for you to step in to a little piece of history and take a trip yourself.