When I booked the excursion from Kingston Ontario to connect with the east coast train departing from Montreal, Quebec,I had forgotten that I would not have the long summer hours of daylight to see the sites/sights along the way. Unusually warm, sweltering, sunny days preceded the heavy deluge that Nova Scotia received from the remnants of Hurricane Matthew on October 10th, Thanksgiving Monday.īut several days before that powerful storm drenched this Maritime Province, spectacular scenery occupied the shorter autumn days of my train journey on ‘ The Ocean‘. After having lived on the Caribbean island of Dominica for almost 20 years, who could blame me for fearing the worst, in terms of a plummeting thermometer!Īs it turned out, semi-tropical weather accompanied me on a mid-October Canadian Thanksgiving journey to the east coast of Canada to visit relatives.
While I thoroughly enjoyed the sizzling temperatures, I was apprehensive about what the fall months would bring. Tree-lined Breakwater Park borders Lake Ontario near Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario.Ĭooler weather has finally settled in to Eastern Canada after a long hot dry summer.
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