Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1952)

178 CANADA CALLS YOUR CAMERA A marked route-map awaits the movie maker who has Canada in his viewfinder THERE'S a friendly 1500 mile Canadian vacation awaiting the movie making motorist seeking a filming holiday this year. The starting point: Niagara Falls, Ontario. Spanning five of Canada's eastern provinces, the route follows paved, well-marked highways through unspoiled vacationland, quaint villages and storybook cities. It begins at the Rainbow Bridge and a grandstand view of thundering Niagara Falls, then sets off along a riverside drive past formal gardens and historic forts on an entrancing prelude to this vacation north of the border. ON TO TORONTO The Queen Elizabeth Way, a boulevard superhighway with cloverleaf entries and elevated crossings, connects Niagara Falls and Toronto, passing through Hamilton along the Lake Ontario shore. Toronto is Ontario's capital city and, with a population nearing the million mark. NOVA SCOTIA, long popular with painters, will make an artist of you too as you train your color camera on such fishing ports as Peggy's Cove. THE CARRIAGE is a French-Canadian ca/eche; the site Mount Royal, and the city beyond and below is Montreal, Canada's largest with a million. its largest. The blockhouse of old Fort York still bears the bullet scars of its capture by American forces in 1813. The Canadian National Exhibition, largest annual event of its kind in the world, will be held this year in Toronto from August 22 to September 6. The lakeshore highway continues through Oshawa and Port Hope to Cobourg, 67 miles from Toronto and birthplace of Marie Dressier, whose 114-year-old house is open to visitors. Kingston, Canada's first capital city, is 95 miles from Cobourg on Highway No. 2 at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River. It is the site of Fort Henry, one of Ontario's leading historic attractions. Between Kingston and Brockville, 49 miles down the St. Lawrence, lie the Thousand Islands, spanned by the seven-mile Ivy Lea Bridge and including St. Lawrence Islands National Park. Sightseeing cruises through the Islands cost from $1.75 to $2. Highway No. 2 follows the river past Fort Wellington National Historic Park to Cornwall, where you will find excellent muskellunge, bass, pickerel and perch fishing. COLORFUL MONTREAL The next 59 miles takes the traveler to Quebec Province, across the mouth of the Ottawa River and into Montreal, most colorful of Canadian cities and second largest French-speaking city in the world. Built on an island, Montreal has a population of more than a million and, although a thousand miles from the Atlantic, is the greatest inland port anywhere. It has excellent accommodations, many fine eating places and entertainment to spare. From Montreal to Quebec City, a distance of 170 miles, the highway threads its way through charming French-Canadian villages, where outdoor bake ovens and spinning wheels are still to be found. Hooked rugs, carved figures and other Quebec handicrafts may be purchased along the way. Much of your finest human-interest filming will be found on this leg of the journey. QUAINT QUEBEC CITY Quebec City, capital of the province, is the only walled city in North America. Its quaint buildings, narrow cobbled streets and ancient battlements are reminders of another age. A few miles from the city, Montmorency Falls, higher than Niagara, plunges into the St. Lawrence River within sight of the largest cantilever bridge in the world. Crossing the Quebec Bridge, Highway No. 2 continues beside the tidal waters of the river, past sleepy little villages where harvest time yields lobsters, clams and deep-sea fish, to Riviere-du-Loup, 119 miles from Quebec City. NOW NEW BRUNSWICK From Riviere-du-Loup it's 50 miles through the Eastern Townships to the Province of New Brunswick, where the route follows the historic St. John River to its mouth on the Bay of Fundy. It passes through Grand Falls, named for the largest cataract east of Niagara, where the unusual Wells-In-TheRocks have been worn in the river gorge by cen