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Today is Pelee Day Five. I hope you’ve enjoyed this week of photos of Pelee. If you missed the other days you can see them here:
Pelee Day One: Getting Back to Pelee
Pelee Day Two: Scudder Harbour
Pelee Day Three: Lake Henry and the Old Pelee Lighthouse
Pelee Day Four: Pelee Island Wine
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Pelee Island Day Four today. See Day One here, see Day Two here, and Day Three is here.
Today we’ll take a look at the history and current production of Pelee Island wine. The “Vin Villa”, the first winery on the island, was built in 1868 by Thaddeus Smith. It was destroyed by […]

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Day Three of Pelee Island today — Day One is here and Day Two is here.
Lake Henry is an interesting place because of its history. The dyke protecting Henry Nageleisen’s farm broke in a winter storm in 1972 and Lake Erie came crashing in. The farm was flooded and now there is a […]

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Welcome to Day Two of our week of Pelee Island. You can see

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Plopped in the middle of Lake Erie, a bit south of Leamington, Ontario, is Pelee Island. I’ve got a special affinity for the place because my father and grandmother were born there and I spent my childhood summers playing in the sand and water near my grandparents’ farm on the East Side.
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We’re surrounded by water: Lake St. Clair to the north and northeast, the Detroit River north and northwest of that and then Lake Erie on the west and south. With this much water there is always lots of boating going on. Have a look:

On any given day you can see sailboats dotting the […]

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