May 16, 2012
Guest post by Blair Eveleigh, senior associate editor
Royal LePage released its annual Recreational Property Report this morning, along with the results of a survey it commissioned. The survey polled current cottage owners and those who intend to buy in the next five years. One...
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May 16, 2012
Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. This Friday, the movie Battleship—based on the Hasbro game of the same name—opens in theatres. I don’t remember this board game involving any giant alien robots that emerge from the sea, or Rihanna, but whatever—I haven’t...
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May 10, 2012
Guest post by Blair Eveleigh, senior associate editor
Okay, the Ontario budget may have passed (yay, no election!), but the bill to enact amendments coming out of that budget is still yet to pass; it’s Bill 55, the Strong Action for Ontario Act (Budget Measures), 2012, and...
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May 10, 2012
News flash: We’ve just heard that the night before she begins an eight-city speaking tour aimed at protecting the Great Lakes watershed, Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow will be presented with a Heart & Vision award from the United Church on Monday, May 14...
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May 9, 2012
Last summer we had a fire in our boat’s engine compartment. Our first clue something was wrong was the strong odour of fuel while we were under way. We limped into a nearby cottage dock, fixed the leak, mopped up the fuel, closed the engine compartment cover, and turned the...
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May 9, 2012
Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. In our June 2012 issue we have a story about Diane Gauthier’s fishing boat-turned-outhouse (pg. 27). Neato! Definitely the coolest outhouse I’ve ever seen. (People send this magazine a lot of photos of outhouses. I assume that one...
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May 4, 2012
The supermoon happens May 5, 2012.
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May 4, 2012
Some kids have a treehouse. My sister and I had a boathouse.
It was two storeys, white with green trim, same as the rented cottage up the hill. The two of us slept alone in the single room over the boat slip. She was nine; I was 10.
Though we fell asleep every night listening...
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May 3, 2012
Transport Canada will soon require all small vessels used for any commercial purpose to be registered as commercial vessels.
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May 2, 2012
Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. At the Spring Cottage Life Show, we’d asked visitors to the Cottage Life booth “What’s your favourite thing about the cottage?” Many people said “family,” a bunch said “beer” and “tubing,” and at least one person...
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