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 On the western shores of
Lake Erie in the town of Leamington,
Ontario, is a family-oriented, membership community
of 64 modest summer cottages named The Lighthouse Club. Generations of
families have owned cottages here since the late 1940s, enjoying a no
frills, vacation experience in a tight-knit, friendly community setting.
Children have an expansive beach in which to run and play and can look
forward to seeing their cottage friends each summer. Walking the beach,
swimming, relaxing with a book, playing card and board games with friends
and family members, and watching the multi-colored sunsets are some of
the simple past-times enjoyed by cottage dwellers. The club operates through
bylaws voted on by cottage owners and the costs of utilities, taxes, ground
maintenance, and club-related expenses are covered by annual cottage dues.
The anchor of the club’s
landscape is a hilltop lighthouse that overlooks the cottages. The lighthouse,
functional, but no longer in use, was transformed into restrooms for club
members, and a clubhouse was built adjacent to it. Located about 38 miles
from the international border of Detroit and Windsor near Southwestern
Ontario’s most southern tip, the cottages run along a private beach shared
by cottage owners on Lake Erie’s shoreline, with a public beach and Seacliff
Park on one side
and the Pelee Island Ferry Dock and Leamington
Marina on the other.
Leamington is a farming community
with a population of 28,833 and is known as the “Tomato Capital of Canada.”
Home to a large H.J. Heinz Company factory, Leamington
has the most diverse range of crops in Canada. Long
known for its greenhouses, Leamington has the
largest number of commercial greenhouses in North America and every summer,
migrant workers, mainly from Mexico and the Caribbean, come here for seasonal
work. Representing the significance of the tomato crop to this town, the
information booth in downtown Leamington takes
the shape of a large tomato, as does the town’s water tower.This part of Canada is host to Carolinian
forest parks, which many naturalists take advantage of to view migrating
song birds in the spring and Monarch butterflies in the fall. The geographic
conditions here have also helped create Canada’s
most southerly coastal winery district. These features, combined with
the Erie lakefront and family
atmosphere, make the Lighthouse Club a unique and rewarding vacation community!
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