Trenton to Campbellford, Ontario

John, Bob and I left as early as we could Wednesday morning on the Trent River heading west.

The locks are open 8:30 a.m to 7:00 p.m and it takes about 15 minutes in the morning for them to get ready. We went through 6 locks in the first 7 miles. We did 31 miles for the day and that was through 12 locks. The total lift for all the locks today was 234 feet! Locks 11 and 12 are called flight locks because when we drove out of #11 we drove right into #12. The lift for the 2 locks is 48' and they needed to have 2 locks rather than having such a large lift for 1 lock.

We see this sign at all the locks.

The lockmasters know you want to go through the lock when you tie up to the blue line.

Other spaces along here are for staying the night.




There are 3 original lockmaster houses left on the waterway. The one at lock 4 is 85 years old, the one at lock 5 is all the original stone and this one at lock 9 was built in 1914 on site.

We were told the lockmasters had to live at each of the locks when they were first built.

Most of the locks have gates that are manually opened and closed. Two people turn the handles to open and close these gates.

Boats usually travel together all day through the locks and we were with a boat from Kansas. After several rain showers we finally arrived in Campbellford.
We stopped for the night at the city wall. We had power(hydro in Canada), water and we were close to downtown. Right across the river was a park with live music. What more could we want?

Well, Bob and John needed to buy some refreshments at the LCBO(Liquor Control Board of Ontario). The store was about 1/2 block from the boat. They looked at it for about 2 hours before they decided to go there. They got there at 6:05 and the store closed at 6:00!

That's what they get for relaxing before they got their work done!

Canada has a $2.00 coin since 1996. We were told they had a

contest for the design of the coin and the artist is from Campbellford. The city has a huge monument in the park of the coin.

Campbellford is also known for its chocolate factory. I tried to find the store but must be out of my shopping mode because I couldn't find it!!! Can you believe it, chocolate and shopping both and I couldn't find the store!!!