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Approximately 99 locks, one marine railway, more than a 100 small towns and countless new friends and acquaintances. That’s just a small portion of what Jim and Cuqui Leshaw encountered on their three-month, 1,600-nautical-mile summer cruise of Canada’s Great Lakes and historic canals.
The couple tell us about what is often described as some of the most beautiful cruising in North America on a bucket-list trip from the Erie Canal into Lake Ontario and the Thousand Islands archipelago, the Rideau Canal to Ottawa, the Trent-Severn Waterway, Georgian Bay and the North Channel of Lake Huron before they re-entered the United States and onto Lake Michigan.
