Architecture

A Gananoque businessman and sailor who loved to explore the St. Lawrence River

Carolyn Pratt spent summers as a young girl with her family on Mudlunta Island just a pebble's toss away from Kitsymenie...

I probably have a dozen things with the word Grenell on them: t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, rain jackets, canvas bags and...

Some good things start with death. When my father's Uncle Luther died in October 1952, Big Bob was glum. "You’d’ve like...

It’s a question that is so often taken out of context. Does size matter? More times than not the response is – No. Howe...

It ended up being a love story of sorts. When one of my coworkers mentioned that her sister-in-law’s family was responsi...

They say every man is an island. Farhad Vladi says every man can own an island. Vladi, as he is known in international ...

Dr. Douglas J. Pippin, Star Carter,  and I are standing on the embankment at Fort Haldimand, a British Fort built o...

Cangarda, the century-old luxury yacht that once sailed the St. Lawrence River  as Senator George T. Fulford's Mage...

I carry around a little notebook with me everywhere I go that contains my current ‘to do’ list, which includes everythin...

In April, the website ABay.com published photographs of the crumbling boathouse on Ina Island.  The author, aka Joh...

“I never touched a paint brush until age thirty-five,” Kelly Curry says proudly. But in the past decade, she has painted...

"The House that Jack Built", a 161-page illustrated catalogue that examines Sherman Pratt’s remarkable and little known residence on Niagara Island...

This year the Thousand Islands Playhouse in Gananoque celebrates a major landmark - its 30th Anniversary Season.  A...

Part II of a two-part biography of Henry R. Heath, a pioneer promoter of the Thousand Islands.  This is the second ...

A well-recognized structure among the islands is The Thousand Islands Bridge, operated by The Thousands Islands Bridge A...

As the jacket notes describe: "most charming...

My family was fortunate to call the Balboa our summer home in the Thousand Islands from 1955 to 2008 and it has served...

April's TI Life listed Watch Island on the "Properties" page where we post important properties of the region that are f...

The Peacock Yacht House succumbed to a fire in early 1990’s leaving only the

The first time we saw the Inn was in spring, on a day bursting with the promise of a fresh season. The grass was almost ...

Comfort Island is for sale. . .  When Paul Malo created Thousand Islands Life in 2006, he created a Properties page...

Growing up in the Thousand Islands the old homes and

In November we received a note from Marnie Ross, a member of the Canadian Thousand Islands Watershed Land Trust, “Would ...

Rexford M. Ennis is the author of several dissertations on Thousand Islands history; often presented to an appreciative ...

When Paul Malo created Thousand Islands Life, the magazine, in 2005, he did so with a hope that much of the "past" would...

  CARLETON ISLAND This is the second story in a series written by staff reporter, Kim Lunman, for the Brockville...

This article, written by Paul Malo, was originally posted in the old format of TI Life as part of the series Grand River...

Hub Island house, built by Steve Taylor from Wellesley Island.  Originally posted in the old format of TI Life as p...

Above Clayton, about the year 1937, Fairview Manor was constructed of boulders, sometimes said to be “Adirondack river s...

The last large summer home appeared on “millionaire’s row” prior 1913 (although by one account that property was not acq...

Towards the end of the twentieth century, Thousand Island Park was not the place that is now, when the twenty-first cent...

Standing on the peninsula-like head of Carleton Island ...

  The following presentation has been adapted from an article that appeared in the Thousand Islands Sun Vacationer ...