North Bay, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Once an important stopping point on the canoe route to the west and now a useful place to break your journey on the long drive north, the workaday city of NORTH BAY , some 160km from Bracebridge, is a relative giant hereabouts with a population of 56,000. Glued to the shores of Lake Nipissing, it has one notable attraction, the Dionne Quints Museum , by the information centre where Hwy 11 hits the south side of town (daily: late May to June 9am–5pm; July–Aug 9am–7pm; Sept to mid-Oct 9am–4pm; $2.75). The museum is housed in the small log cabin from Corbeil, just west of North Bay, where the Dionne … more »