Located in an idyllic setting on a wooded one acre private island near Portland, Ontario, Fancy Free is a 5 bedroom Victorian summer home. It is easy to reach from the highway and has a private mainland lot for parking cars and boats.
Fancy Free is a local heritage landmark, and is featured in the award-winning book, 'Rideau', written by Larry Turner with photography by John de Visser.
Big Rideau Lake is part of the historic Rideau Canal system, a 202 kilometre long waterway that is soon to receive World Heritage Site status from UNESCO. This part of Ontario, like the Thousand Islands, is a geological extension of the Adirondack mountains, featuring beautiful scenery with towering pines and rocky hills interspersed with lovely clear lakes and 'miles of isles'.
Fancy Free's walls tell a story of a century of summers spent fishing, boating and swimming. Enjoy a swim off the dock, watch the kids swinging out over the lake on the Tarzan swing, take canoe rides at sunset to the call of the loon, go out for a sail, do some fishing, have a corn roast, or just sit back and read a good book in the hammock.
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Close to the mainland, yet completely private, Fancy Free is a peaceful haven from the bustle of present-day life, welcoming guests from all over the world to enjoy the old-fashioned fun of Ontario cottage life.
Included with rental: a 14 foot runabout motorboat, a Chestnut canoe and a Sunfish sailboat.
Pamela Gough and Tom Gough 416-236-2037