Explore a paradise of recreational trails and lakes nestled in an ancient mountain range in Lanark Highlands. Festivals and events, canoeing and kayaking, cycling and hiking, trail-riding and snowmobiling, museums and genealogy, hockey and figure-skating, camping and golfing, music, artisans and farm-gate sales, ballparks and boat launches, shopping and studio tour's . . . there's always something for everyone in Lanark Highlands - your four-season destination!
Travel the iron highway and see how Smiths Falls celebrates railroading – past, present and future.
Welcome to the Town of Smiths Falls!
Located within an hour of the heart of Ottawa, Canada's capital, the Town of Smiths Falls is an ideal place to live, work and learn for newcomers.
Smiths Falls offers a "Sensational" lifestyle, built around its affordable housing, educational facilities, medical and municipal services, recreation, shopping and leisure activities.
At www.immigratetosmithsfalls.ca, you will find information resources and highlights of the local community. Explore the website to see what Sensational Smiths Falls has to offer you and your family.
It’s always showtime in Perth, with its vibrant history of bringing music and theatre to the stage. Nestled between Ottawa and Kingston, Perth is perfectly positioned as a great place to visit, live and do business. The area’s majestic stone buildings and beautiful green spaces are the perfect backdrops for your time spent in Perth and District. History Dating back 200 years, Perth carries a rich military and social history. The town was named after the Scottish town and river, and was established as a military settlement in 1816, shortly after the War of 1812. Many of the first settlers were military veterans and a wave of Scottish and Irish immigrants quickly followed. Several Scottish immigrants were stonemasons, and their work can be seen in many area buildings and in the locks of the Rideau Canal. There’s little doubt Perth residents remain proud of their history. The restored heritage buildings are a testament to the town’s efforts to honour the past in everyday life. When strolling throughout town, be sure to look up and take notice of each building’s design and craftsmanship. Visiting Here Whether you want to explore the eclectic downtown shops or cast a fishing rod in one of the surrounding lakes, there is something for every visitor in Perth and District. Downtown Perth is packed with gorgeous shops and savoury restaurants. Grab a coffee and linger through the books stores or check out the latest fashions in the clothing shops before hitting up a restaurant patio for a hearty lunch. Spend an afternoon picnicking in Perth’s Stewart, Code and Haggart Parks located behind the majestic Town Hall. This downtown haven offers the perfect opportunity for a family outing where you can set up a picnic by the banks of Tay River and then make your way to the nearby children’s playground. Discover the natural surroundings outside of Perth. From cross-country skiing in Murphys Point Provincial Park to cycling through Glen Tay, the region provides a never-ending outdoors to-do list. Top it off with 100 lakes within driving distance, swimming, boating and fishing enthusiasts have ample opportunities to discover the lake life. Festival and Events Get out your calendars! Perth and District is host to a long list of popular festivals and events that are sure to fill your social schedule. The festival season kicks off in April with the annual Festival of the Maples, which is the grand finale to the maple syrup production season and takes place in downtown Perth. Hosted by the Perth and District Chamber of Commerce, the day-long event includes entertainment, a petting zoo, vendors and of course, maple syrup products! The Stewart Park Festival is a free, weekend-long music festival in July. The festival remains a favourite for both locals and visitors, as it’s a showcase for musical and cultural talent in a relaxed setting along the banks of the Tay River in Stewart Park. Each August, garlic lovers descend onto the Perth Fairgrounds for the annual Garlic Festival. Cooking demonstrations, prizes and activities centered on the aromatic rose makes it chic to reek! There are a number of other festivals and events that take place throughout the Perth and District community including the Perth Kilt Run, The Festival of Good Cheer, art tours as well as local fairs. Living Here It’s easy to see why so many people are proud to call Perth home. Not only is there a rich history and vibrant cultural and recreational lifestyle engrained in the town landscape, there is access to all amenities. The Great War Memorial Hospital is located in Perth and the medical community offers professional and caring service to residents. The Perth and District Union Library is a well-visited centre in downtown Perth. The library serves the Town of Perth and surrounding townships, as well as seasonal residents and tourists, offering book service, children’s programs and internet access. Perth is a family-friendly town, and parents can send their children to one of the many elementary and high schools operated by the public and Catholic school boards. Retirement living is at its best in Perth, with several established retirement-living facilities on hand, as well as long-term healthcare facilities. The town’s recreational facilities are aplenty, as the Town of Perth operates the Perth Community Centre and Swimming Pool as well as the Conlon Farm Recreation Park. The community centre has an ice pad and is host to a packed schedule with youth and adult figure skating and hockey programs on offer as well as public skating sessions. The pool is a 25-metre facility and programs include youth and adult swim lessons, water aerobics and public swims. Canadian Olympian Mike Brown grew up in Perth and spent hours perfecting his athletic talent in the local pool. Baseball diamonds, soccer fields, tennis courts, a skateboarding park and children’s playground make up the Conlon Farm Recreation Park, and it is a popular community hub. Get to Perth Perth is located between Ottawa and Kingston and only takes an hour to drive here! Coming from Ottawa, take Highway 7 West. From the Highway 417 ramp to Perth, it will take approximately 40 minutes to enter Perth’s Gateway. From Kingston, visitors can get here by taking the County Road 10 from Westport, or take the Highway 15 exit ramp off Highway 401. Follow the signs leading you to Perth! More Information Want more information on everything Perth? Contact the Perth and District Chamber of Commerce and we’ll set you up with maps, guides and suggestions to make your trip to Perth an unforgettable experience. The Perth and District Chamber of Commerce office is located in the Old Fire Hall on Herriott Street. We can be reached at 613-267-3200 or toll-free at 1-888-319-3204. Feel free to email us for further information, or better yet, visit our website at perthchamber.com. You can learn about things to see and do, places to stay and eat and where you can get proper services from local businesses. You can also download the 2011 Perth and District Visitors Guide on our website as well as cycling routes. Visit us at perthchamber.com. Rooted in the past, but embracing progress, Perth is Aged to Perfection. Discover it for yourself.
Eat Local Film Series
3-Course Dinner at Ballygiblin's Restaurant and Pub and show price is $25.00 before taxes.
151 Bridge Street Carleton Place. Be sure to reserve your dinner at Bally's early!
Wine and food tasting before each show at Carleton Place Cinemas, 17 Albert Street, Carleton Place, 7:00 pm. Movie starts at 8:00 pm. The show only price is $8.00.
The Films:
BIG NIGHT showing October 26th, 2009
Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Primo is the irascible and gifted chef, brilliant in his culinary genius, but determined not to squander his talent on making the routine dishes that customers expect. Secondo is the smooth front-man, trying to keep the restaurant financially afloat, despite few patrons other than a poor artist who pays with his paintings. The owner of the nearby Pascal's Restaurant, enormously successful (despite mediocre fare), offers a solution – he will call his friend, a big-time jazz musician, to play a special benefit at their restaurant. Primo begins to prepare his masterpiece, a feast of a lifetime, for the brother's big night.
EATING ALASKA showing November 23rd, 2009
What happens to a vegetarian who moves to the last frontier?
Eating Alaska is a serious and humorous film about connecting to where you live and eating locally. It is about trying to break away from the industrial food system when that means not only buying fresh seasonal food from local farmers, but taking part in a world of hunting and gathering. Made by a former city dweller now living on an island in Alaska and married to a fisherman and deer hunter, it is a journey into regional food traditions, our connection to the wilderness and to what we put in our mouths.
The film portrays a wry quest for safe, healthy, meaningful and sustainable food that leads to climbing mountains with women hunters, scrutinizing food labels with kids, talking moose meat with teens in a small village public school and exploring how others in the last frontier, Alaska Natives and non-Natives are eating.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO showing December 10th, 2009
Marie-Monique Robin, author of the tome Escadrons de la Mort, L'Ecole Francaise, helms the muckraking documentary The World According to Monsanto. The titular corporation, as Robin reminds her audience, represents one of the most controversial corporations in the United States; its manufactures the seed technology for 90% of all genetically-engineered crops on the planet, and thus argueably poses a greater environmental threat to mankind than any other single company. With us, Robin plumbs through the company's checkered history and recounts its long string of alleged health scandals and environmental abuses.
FOOD INC. showing January 18th, 2010
In Food Inc. filmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on the American food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of the American government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. The American food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety or workers and the environment. We have bigger breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide resistent soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli – the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults.
MONDOVINO showing February 8th, 2010
Explores the thesis that the deep coloured oak-aged taste of Bordeaux wines has become the world standard, following the writing of critic Robert Parker, the magazine "Wine Spectator," the consulting work of Michel Rolland of Pomerol and the money of Mondavi, a publicly traded corporation based in Napa with a family history of wine-making. Wine makers worldwide, many using Rolland as a consultant, pursue this structure, colour and taste – to the detriment, argue some, of wine that should reflect the character of the land where the grape is grown, including the lighter Burgundy. A few old wine makers, from Anaine, Sardinia and Argentina offer this argument.
THE FUTURE OF FOOD showing March 8th, 2010
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America. A revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat.
The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled US grocery shelves for the past decade.
From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed by the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply.
Shot on location in the US, Canada and Mexico, The Future of Food examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis.
