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DJ
Jul 27, 06 - 4:52 PM |
Hey there Webmaster
Love your forum, hope more people start visiting and posting here. I would love to help keep conversation going. I posted a topic about jobs... can you tell me anything about work there...also, are there small apartments to rent there. The only site I could find for apartment rental was for overnight or weekly. Hubby has inherited 5 acres there on the island, we hope to make it up there next summer (07) to check it out, but we will need a place to live till we can build on it. Tell me EVERYTHING, is there a Walmart! LOL Doctors, hospital, grocery, pow wows (I dance and sing)I am coming from Kentucky USA, so I am totally Canada ignorant! How long does it take to take the ferry from Michigan to the island, is a feasible idea to find work in Mich and go home each night to the island? Boy, I am gonna owe you a dinner when we get there!!! by the way, my name is DJ 
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Tina
Jul 27th, 2006 - 9:56 PM |
Re: Hey there Webmaster
Hi DJ, There is no Walmart on the island.....and hopefully there never will be. |
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DJ
Jul 27th, 2006 - 11:02 PM |
Re: Hey there Webmaster
Aaahhh....NO WALMART??? How do you live!!! LOL!! So is there like a rural grocery store then... I remember when I was a kid, there was just a little store up the road and my grandma would give me a buck to go get some baloney. The guy at the back of the store would fresh slice it up and wrap it in brown paper and off to home I would go. I swear that was the best baloney in the WORLD!! Anything like that up there? |
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DJ
Jul 27th, 2006 - 11:04 PM |
Re: Hey there Webmaster
Also Tina.... Thats not EVERYTHING about the island...how bout the other stuff I asked about? That was a pretty bare bones response! Come on girl...do some conversating!! |
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Tina
Jul 28th, 2006 - 4:34 PM |
Re: Hey there Webmaster
Hi DJ, Well I don't live on the island.....I wish! Maybe someday. As far as I know there is only one ferry that goes to Manitoulin and it's from Tobermory Ontario. The other way onto the island is a bridge from the north but that is still Ontario. I don't imagine that there is any feasible way to work off the island and return to it every night.....where is the land you've inherited? Do you know what little town it is near? Manitoulin Island is like no place else on earth (I think). So unspoiled and perfect. Be prepared to live a very laid back existance. No one is in a hurry....notice how fast you even get replies on this board LOL. Everyone is just too busy enjoying the beauty everywhere. I have to say, I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. For most it's simply a vacation destination as the pace is too slow for most. Most people I know would get very bored, very fast up there. It's not so much the fact that the whole island is pretty rural (even the towns) but it's also that everything is far. Don't get me wrong....I am NOT putting the place down. I love it there so much. I would recommend you go up there for a few weeks on vacation to get a feel of the pace of it all. Either you will love it or you will die of boredom. If I were you, I'd build a summer cottage on the land and enjoy it a few times a year. Until retirement that is. Then I'd live there and fish and explore everyday. Tina 
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Webmaster
 Jul 30th, 2006 - 10:31 AM |
Re: Hey there Webmaster
Sorry for the delay in replying but I see that Tina has been taking good care of you. Thanks Tina! The closest Wal-Mart is in Sudbury, about a 2-½ hour drive away. Personally there are only a few items that I buy at Wal-Mart anyway as I can find most items cheaper somewhere else but they do have a great selection to choose from don’t they. We have some great grocery stores on the island and many individual shops for clothing, electronics, pharmacy items, souvenirs and you name it, we have it somewhere! You can also get great local products at any of the 3 farmers market locations. That’s where I buy my jams and teas and such except when my wife has a batch of jam made from local blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, cherries or whatever else is in season. J As Tina said, the Chi-Cheemaun ferry runs during the summer months from Tobermory and you can drive onto Manitoulin year round in Little Current over Canada’s only remaining, operating swing bridge. During the summer vehicles have to wait about 15 minutes on the hour while the bridge opens up to allow boats to pass through the north channel. I recommend getting there a little bit early so you have time to grab some locally made ice cream at 3 Cows and a Cone, located near the bridge, and then just plunk yourself down on a bench to watch the event. I don’t know about it being a laid back existence as we can usually manage to keep fairly busy. Yes, I do enjoy hours on our deck just reading or watching for birds, deer, rabbit and the occasional bear, but we also belong to the Sheguiandah Lions Club and there are always events planned by them or one of the other 4 Lions Clubs on the island to keep everyone busy. I travel across the country a great deal of the time so I’m not as active Lion as I’d like to be but hopefully that will change when I retire in a few years time. I guess that’s enough rambling from me for now. Like Tina said, why not come up for a couple weeks vacation and look around this summer. One of the largest pow-wow events in the country takes place the August 5th weekend and that would be the perfect time to see everything but there is no such thing as a bad time to visit Manitoulin. See you soon! |
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