Port Hope
Port Hope is a municipality in Ontario, Canada.
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A great town to visit
Port Hope is one of my favourite places. I have personally floated my Granny down the Fanny. When we last saw her she seemed to be having fun, smiling and yelling and waving enthusiastically! I have also purchased tea in the Bristish Store, seen live shows in the beautiful theatre, had a great Latte in the independent coffee store, and dined on delicious Thai, Mexican, and Indian food (not at the same time). The country's most incredible art deco antique store is there, as are many other antique stores. The Bed and Breakfast...well, what can I say...great bed and a great breakfast! The town has a Junior A Hockey Team (well...it is in Canada after all) and the Liquoir Store as a parking lot. There are sufficient churches to save almost any class of sinner, except of course the "holyier than though, prothelizing, anti-nuke crusaders" who appear occasionally like dandilions on a beautiful lawn. No fear...they can be dug out. BONUS: the town has one of the best gosh darn Santa Claus parades this side of Welcome, complete with pipe bands, dancers, twilers, rock bands, scouts, cadets, Canada Post candy hurlers, fire truck and of course...Santa. This is a great town to visit at any time of the year.
Sumo, Canada - 22 December 2007
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A very unique community spirit
It's not just the prettiest town in Ontario with the best Heritage Conservation District - it's also a town with a very unique community spirit. Otherwise it would not support its own daily newspaper (the daily with the smallest circulation of any daily in Canada), have not only a Medical Centre but also a Community Health Care Centre, have Canada's only operating Atmospheric Theatre, its own Port Hope's own Police Service, its own Via Rail station, its own Lake Ontario yacht basin, its own Fall Fair, its own Jazz Festival, its own Community Care group, its own branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario with its annual Historic House Tour, "the antiques capital of Ontario," its own archives . . .heck, don't get me started. And then there's Float Your Fanny Down the Ganny, a ten-kilometer race on the Ganaraska River that draws crowds of up to 15,000 spectators.
Wilf, Canada - 30 November 2007
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Port Hope remains home
Port Hope is the town 16,000 + call home. It is a nuclear town - one with the mythical stigma of many towns with a nuclear industry. Yet among the people who currently live here, the people that have moved on to new endeavours and locations Port Hope remains home. The town features one of the best examples of 19th century architecture by the preservation of its main street. But a town with great heritage buildings in no way completes a town. It's the people - diverse in cultures, diverse in talents. Port Hope is not just any town it is our town. Visit soon!
Peter, Canada - 28 November 2007