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    Limehouse trails. Rock crevices at the site of the historic limestone kilns

    23/03/202524/03/2025
    Limehouse Conservation Area is known for its rock crevices, well-preserved limestone kilns and remains of an old mill. Located on the Niagara Escarpment, about 2km ...
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    Trillium is official flower and emblem of the Canadian province of Ontario

    20/03/202520/03/2025
    In Canada, the Trillium plant is commonly found in forested areas, particularly in Ontario. It is the provincial flower, as well as in parts of ...
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    Terra Cotta Trails at the Conservation Area est. 1958

    17/03/202520/03/2025
    The summer cottages led Rod Clancy to create a summer park, which eventually became the Terra Cotta Conservation Area in 1958. This highly successful attraction ...
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    The highest peak (414 metres) of Halton Hills is in Churchill, near Acton.

    07/11/202408/11/2024
    Halton Hills highest peak sits at 414 metres, or 1358 feet in a small village of Churchill, just outside of Acton. To be exact, the ...
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    Hungry Hollow trail runs along the Silver Creek

    14/09/202417/09/2024
    Hungry Hollow trail runs along the Silver Creek branch of the Credit River, nestled in a valley to the south of Georgetown. It is known ...
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    Cheltenham Badlands. Red landscape 400 million years old.

    23/04/202425/04/2024
    This distinctive and seemingly dead landscape in Caledon badlands was formed at the bottom of an ancient sea more than 400 million years ago. This ...
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    Scotsdale Farm. Frozen in time and cold Canadian winter

    02/01/202403/01/2024
    Frozen in time and cold Canadian winter the Scotsdale Farm is glowing in the beauty of ice and snow. Enter from Trafalgar Road and begin ...
  • Halton Hills History, Trails / Nature

    The original name of the Credit River was as Missinnihe, the Trusting Creek

    09/12/202325/12/2023
    Have you ever thought about where did Credit River get its name? The name comes from the time when the Mississauga First Nations people that ...
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    What blue and white blaze marks of the Bruce Trail mean?

    07/12/202319/12/2023
     The use of blaze markers on the Bruce Trail dates back to 1962 when Philip Gosling, one of the four “founders” of the Bruce Trail, ...
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    Magical fall colours at Scotsdale Farm, Halton Hills

    22/11/202312/01/2024
    Scotsdale Farm is one of the most beautiful spots in Halton Hills and favourite spot for photographers and filmmakers. 531 acres of rolling hills, woodlands ...
  • Halton Hills History, Trails / Nature

    Georgetown’s Barber Mill Dynamo, 1888. The first long-distance transmission of hydro power in North America.

    16/11/202319/12/2023
    Did you know that the Barber Mill Dynamo in Georgetown, built in 1888, was the first electrical generating plant in North America use for long ...
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    Silver Creek. Rocks, cliffs, pond, sunny forests, lookouts spots

    07/11/202325/12/2023
    Silver Creek’s lookout spots offer spectacular views of the escarpment especially in the fall when all the leaves change colours. Silver Creek Conservation Area has ...
  • Halton Hills History, Trails / Nature

    Rockwood limestone cliffs, caves and glacial potholes

    09/10/202225/12/2023
    Towering limestone cliffs, caves and glacial potholes, including one of the world’s largest, are a few of the natural wonders at Rockwood. You can view ...
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    Scotsdale Farm, home of old-growth forest and Ontario’s oldest trees

    10/07/202214/07/2022
    Scottsdale Farm is situated north of Georgetown, on Trafalgar Road. This 531 acre heritage property is a popular hiking spot where you can see some ...
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    Devastating ice storm in Georgetown, Ontario, 2013

    14/01/202220/07/2022
    Freezing rain begun to fall on Halton Hils on December 20, 2013. Over 30mm of ice covered the trees and hydro lines. Much of the ...

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