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Cabin FeverOn Lake Simcoe, cottage life is a snowball’s throw from the city. “You’re not always going to catch a fish, but a bad day fishing is better than a good day working,” says our guide as he drives along frozen Lake Simcoe, an hour’s drive north of Toronto. The distant buzz of a snowmobile reverberates across a lake studded with ice-fishing huts, while smoke billows from chimneys on the horizon. It’s the kind of Canadian scene that almost brings a frozen tear to the eye. The counties lining Lake Simcoe just might be the last chunk of unchecked cottage country in Ontario, and no one takes themselves too seriously here. Driving into Beaverton to fetch provisions – fish and chips and beer – locals wave from their pickups as they rattle by. But don’t be fooled; these shores are also where Stephen Leacock penned Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich.
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