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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 ...