The well signed "waterfront trail" we followed today was true to its name - saw the river all day today, although it is often wide enough to look more like a lake. Rode along good shoulder of route 2 to the unremarkable town of Iroquois. The town was moved 1 mile back from the river as part of the St Lawrence seaway project in the 1950s - a remarkable engineering effort to make the river navigable from Montreal to lake Ontario. Now that's infrastructure. Other history we learned about were the many sites on the war of 1812, when the British repelled the American invaders. It's so important to protect southern borders from mauraders!
Afternoon ride was really nice - after a short spell on route 2, and an ice cream-less visit to upper canada village, we were on bike paths through the woods and along a causeway in the river. Lovely stretch along Long Sault Parkway, connecting 11 islands in the river. More bike trail by the old locks, and rolled into the town of Cornwall by 4pm. Beat all the rain coming from the west. Nice dinner with tonight's history presentation on John Cabot. 67 miles.
The well signed "waterfront trail" we followed today was true to its name - saw the river all day today, although it is often wide enough to look more like a lake. Rode along good shoulder of route 2 to the unremarkable town of Iroquois. The town was moved 1 mile back from the river as part of the St Lawrence seaway project in the 1950s - a remarkable engineering effort to make the river navigable from Montreal to lake Ontario. Now that's infrastructure. Other history we learned about were the many sites on the war of 1812, when the British repelled the American invaders. It's so important to protect southern borders from mauraders! 
Afternoon ride was really nice - after a short spell on route 2, and an ice cream-less visit to upper canada village, we were on bike paths through the woods and along a causeway in the river. Lovely stretch along Long Sault Parkway, connecting 11 islands in the river. More bike trail by the old locks, and rolled into the town of Cornwall by 4pm. Beat all the rain coming from the west. Nice dinner with tonight's history presentation on John Cabot. 67 miles.
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