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HERSHEY Chocolate factory and Shoppe
janika Says: It's not a co-incidence they call Smiths Falls a chocolate town. Many of the local residents are employed by the Hershey Chocolate factory. The recently expanded facility which includes the planters Nuts facility covers over 450,000 square feet on a 39 acre site in the town...
Simonneeddy Says: Besides the Rideau River and Canal Smiths Falls also has A RAILWAY MUSEUM ( it was always a divisional pont on the Canadian Pacific Railway) My father worked for the CPR.There is a HERSHY CHOCOLATE FACTORY AS WELLIn my young days there was a huge farm instrument foundery and...
janika Says: The Rideau Canal Museum is located in a 19-th century stone building which was once a mill. It's not all stone anymore, since they renovated it with concrete. The Woods Mills Complex, Inside, high-technology displays and a variety of artifacts bring to life the history of...
janika Says: See old trains and wagon cars at the Smiths Falls Railway Museum. Each engine and car has it's own history and as you are looking at them from the outside and inside, sometimes you wish they could talk, and wondering how much they could tell you from the past.The Smiths...
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Simonneeddy Says: Mariner's Inn hotel Smiths Falls Ontario. Dining room, coctail lounge parking for 200 cars and boat dockage. Open all year and situated on the Rideau Canal at the locks33 Centre Street, Smiths FALLS ONT. k7A 3B8, phone 613 283-5150.Near the swinging bridge.We stayed here...
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The Chocolate Town Cafe serves Coffee of course and other yummy food and drinks. The name of this restaurant is originating from the Hershey Chocolate factory, since the restaurant is located down the road between the factory the centre town.
Favorite Dish: There is another pizza place located in the same building called: Pick a Pizza. The two places have the same owner. How do I know that? When I was photographing the place, the owner came out and greeted me, plus he explained to us how to get to the Rideau Canal Museum.
Written Jul 16, 2003
Address: 12 Chambers St., Smiths Falls
Phone: 1-613-283-2638
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If you piled your self up with a few pounds of sweets from the Chocolate Shoppe, you are probably done with the shopping in Smiths Falls. If not, than you can find many more, smaller stores in town, selling arts, crafts and other gifts.
What to buy: You can buy chocolate and non chocolate related items, like Canadian flags, maps, pens, T-sirts, books, key-chains, etc.
What to pay: Not much. I got an Ontario travel map for free. :)
Updated Apr 4, 2011
Address: All over town
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There are beautiful parks found in Smiths Falls and around the Rideau Canal locks. This is near by the Museum.
I just had to take a shot of these flowers. Since I love nature and all kinds of plants, I couldn't miss this flower bed. The combination of the colors are very vibrant. Please enlarge image for a better view. Enjoy.
Updated Apr 4, 2011
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Luggage and bags: No Luggage other than your snacks.
Clothing/Shoes/Weather Gear: Umbrella. You also need sunglasses and sun-screen lotion for your skin.
Toiletries and Medical Supplies: Everything is available in the local stores. I would still bring dental floss with me.
Photo Equipment: Camera, film, batteries
Camping/Beach/Outdoor Gear: Rain coat. As you see on this photo, it was just about to rain in Smiths Falls.
Miscellaneous: They supply you with plastic bags in the Chocolate Shoppe. :)
Updated Apr 4, 2011
janika Says: Ok, maybe this plane is not so big, but it is huge in little children's eyes. It is located besides the Rideau Canal locks in a middle of a park where children play and bath in a kiddy pool. The plane is a memorial for the people who learned flying and fought the wars with...
Simonneeddy Says: Here we go to-wards THE RIDEAU FERRY BRIDGE and then the canal to SMITHS FALLS. BOATS can go from KINGSTON on LAKE ONTARIO and beyond all the way up this river and canal system to OTTawa and then down to Montreal.
Simonneeddy Says: The Rideau Canal and the Rideau River are very important to OTTAWA. the following pictures were taken near Ottawa at the RIDEAU FERRY and SMITHS FALLS Ontario ( where I was born in 1922 and lived until 1935 but returned in the summer months until 1941 as my father had a...
Edmunds-weir-dam. I often went...
Simonneeddy Says: Edmunds-weir-dam. I often went fishing with my father here as well as a kid of 5 to 13 on his day off.
You must visit at Smiths Falls...
Simonneeddy Says: You must visit at Smiths Falls the abandoned flight of 3 locks. There is one still operating (it is on the left).
Lets go water skiing now that...
Simonneeddy Says: Lets go water skiing now that we are back at the cottage at Rideau ferry. My daughter SHARON is going to go for a ride on the skis(better her than me)Here she is ready to take off
Simonneeddy Says: We are through the lock and have just passed a place where I use to come fishing with my father when I was 6 to 12 years old. (That's 68 years ago and people are still fishing here.)
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Favorite thing: Ok, we only have one, but here is my advise. If you are approaching Smiths Falls from Ottawa, (highway #15) try visiting the Railway Museum first. Than go to see the Rideau Canal Museum and leave the chocolate factory to the end. We did it almost like this and it was a very good idea.
On the picture you can see a huge painting of two tigers on the wall of a store, called Giant Tigre. It's a family, budget store. Almost like Target. The quality of the goods in this store is often questionable but the prices are very reasonable.
Fondest memory: Kids have a tendency to be hyper active when filled with sweets! :D Unless you want the kids jumping up & down on you all the step of the way while visiting, go to the Hershey place last.
Updated Jul 17, 2003
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Welcome to Smiths Falls. This is a small but very interesting town in Ontario, Canada. It is located half way between Ottawa and Kingston where road #15 and the Rideau Canal crosses each other....
SMITHS FALLS ONTARIO, Rideau Canal and Family pics
Please visit the travelogues below I was born here and lived and went to school until I was 13 then we moved to Montreal Quebec. Lets go for a boat ride with my daughter's boyfriend DAVE , on the...
It is my favorite place to be. It's so relaxing and invigorating too. It's just a one room cabin that is left from what used to be an old farm house many years ago.
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