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Holy smoke.(This City)
March 1, 2004... It looked more like a scene from a Cheech and Chong movie than what it really was: Canada's largest (known) cannabis factory, with more than 30,000 plants and 50 round-the-clock staff concealed inside 5,625 square metres of former brewery. The...
Production values.(Profile)
March 1, 2004... Back in the early 1990s, David "Sudz" Sutherland had the sort of menial job most writers secretly covet: he was a security guard in the Bay-Adelaide Centre. The work itself was stultifying, but while keeping one eye on surveillance cameras, the...
Northern alliance.(Telling Tales)
March 1, 2004... Canadian Consul General to New York City and ex-Saskatchewanian Pamela Wallin was one of 150 lucky guests to be invited to the ultra-secret wedding of Diana Krall and Deelan MacManus (better known as Elvis Costello) in early December, The...
Bush-whacked.(Telling Tales)
March 1, 2004... For some people, political reality really bites. Popular indie actress Janeane Garofalo has been an outspoken critic of Baby Bush; on an off-cited episode of CNN's Crossfire, she called the current administration "radically corrupt," among...
Opie at the Minto.(Telling Tales)
March 1, 2004... It seems the swank new temporary address for visiting Hollywood benches is neither a rented Rosedale abode not' a suite at the Four Seasons--it's the Minto Yorkville. With its 24-hour concierge, controlled elevator key cards and 43 cameras...
Sealed with a kiss?(Telling Tales)
March 1, 2004... Millionaire heiress, art aficionado and occasional scribe Alannah Weston may be sealing her fate before long. Rumours have swirled about her relationship with the honey-voiced, '90s electro-pop legend Seal (whose birth name is the...
The producers.(Telling Tales)
March 1, 2004... Down and Dirty Pictures is Vanity Fair contributor Peter Biskind's latest buzz-inducing tell-all--a 500-plus-page portrait of the North American independent film industry that features Miramax megalomaniac Harvey Weinstein prominently. Not...
Urban Decoder.(This City)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... Dear Urban Decoder:
What's the story behind 471-473 Bloor Street West? It used to be a restaurant but has been boarded up and rotting away for at least 15 years. Is it a tax write-off? An eccentric landlord? A family feud?
--Carolyn...
Tunnel vision.(Found)
March 1, 2004... The dynamite blasts went off at noon and 4:30 every day, as TTC crews tore through the solid rock beneath Yonge Street. To soothe sore eardrums and pacify disgruntled local business owners, "The Toronto Subway Song" hit the airwaves in 1950--a...
King David's Court.(Roundup)
March 1, 2004... "You'll never be mayor," Mel bellowed at his nemesis, David Miller. But destiny (disguised as a broom) intervened, setting the stage for a new chief magistrate, a coterie of eager rookies and an ideological reordering of the powers that be....
This issue.
March 1, 2004... ALEC SCOTT, WHO WRITES OUR ARTS COLUMN, WAS A LAWYER before turning to journalism. Not a conventional career path, and not one you'd take if what motivated you was building net worth. But as Jack Batten, another superannuated lawyer, would...
Buggin'.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... Amen to the "People We Loathed" piece on Rebecca Eckler in "The Year That Was" [January]. I had to turn away from the National Post box in front of my office for a full week for fear that I would see Eckler's Nee and make a public spectacle of...
Team players.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... Despite what Michael Posner wrote in his piece about Dr. Michael Clarfield ["Body Work," January], there was, in fact, a sports clinic in Toronto before 1980. What is now called the Warren Campbell Sports Medicine Clinic was formed at the...
Choice words.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2004... In the January issue, your Shopping With Chefs columnist commenced her voyage with Eau chef Tawfik Shehata with the line "On our first outing, Tawfik drives his dark green Honda Prelude with practised ease...." Please spare us from such...
Theatre.(This Month)(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... OPENINGS
After the Fall. This is one of several theatrical remembrances of genocides past to open recently (see also The Rogues of Urfa and The Trials el John Demjanjuk). Arthur Miller's 1964 response to the Holocaust is perhaps the...
Blood lines.(This Month)
March 1, 2004... Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark was an unexpected art house hit; the 90-minute one-take wonder set In the Hermitage played in Toronto theatres for well over four months last year. But with his latest, Father and Son, the Russian director...
Classical music.(This Month)(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... ORCHESTRAL
Sinfonia Toronto. The production's tithe, A Breath of Fresh Air, is apt, as the evening features new works as well as less frequently heard pieces, including the Canadian premiere of Armenian composer Alexander Arutunian's...
Bounty hunter.(This Month)(Eternal Egypt exhibition at the Royal Ontairo Museum)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Retracing the footsteps of the pharaohs, Charles Trick Currelly was Canada's real-life Indiana Jones. From 1900 to 1909, the founder and first director of the Royal Ontario Museum unearthed many spectacular objects at Deir el Bahri, a temple...
Dance.(This Month)(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... Amour, acids et noix. The fiercely independent Daniel Leveille Danse has always followed its own path in the Montreal dance scene by man aging to avoid the rather pretentious Eurocentric aesthetic of other Francophone companies. When Leveille...
Art.(This Month)
March 1, 2004... [FREE] Beyond Compare. Launching in Toronto and travelling to Lisbon and Amsterdam, this show aims to move past hoary stereotypes. Among the nearly 70 photographic portraits by women photographers intent on redefining female beauty is...
Nightlife.(This Month)(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... CONCERTS
Sting. The milkman's son from Wallsend (40 kilometres from Newcastle) is probably more than used to being referred to as the milkman's son from Newcastle, considering Sting has endured three decades of praise for his composing,...
Jazz and standards.(This Month)(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... CONCERTS
Preservation Hall Jazz Band. New Orleans' Preservation Hall has been a landmark since it first opened its doors in 1961. Its daily programming featured the earliest form of jazz documented or even to bear the name. The Hall's...
Kids' events.(This Month)(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... Art Gallery of Ontario. Before architect Frank Gehry gets started, untrained imaginations can take their own turn revitalizing the AGO. The March break theme is Transforming Spaces; youthful hands can leave their mark on the galleries by adding...
Different drummer.(This Month)(Barry Elmes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... There's always something a little odd about the drummer. He can be a mystic, a joker, even (as in This Is Spinal Tap) the victim of spontaneous combustion. Barry Elmes is no exception. He's a southpaw who plays right-handed and left-footed--on...
Diversions.(This Month)(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... Canada Blooms. The title for this wildly popular show should perhaps be Boomers Bloom, as gardening's newest and most fervent acolytes go gaga over this gargantuan exhibition of cultivated flowers and greenery. Six acres, 30 gardens and more...
Night crawler.(This Month)(bars)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... In this heretical age of lychee infusions and chocotinis. It's reassuring to know you can still find the classics--a good, stiff whisky sour, say, or a no-nonsense vodka gimlet. Herewith, some select purveyors of bold oldies, ready to induce...
Seeing red: the hockey rivalry between Canada and the Soviet Union started long before Paul Henderson's last-minute heroics in 1972. How a Senior B team from East York took on the Russians at the 1954 World Championship and changed hockey in this country forever.(Sports)(East York Lyndhursts)
March 1, 2004... THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED to lose. Like every Canadian team before them, the East York Lyndhursts were expected to return from the 1954 World Championship in Stockholm with the gold medal. It was the first time a Canadian squad would skate against...
Murder in St. James town: death transformed Justin Shephard into a statistic, one of more than 125 young black males killed in Toronto since 1996. But before he was discovered on the Howard Street footbridge, two bullets in his head, he was the big kid with the big game, on his way to the NBA. And he was somebody's son.(Justin Shephard)
March 1, 2004... There was never a time when he was small. Three inches longer than the average baby from first breath, with a head so big that his mother, Audette, spent a lifetime teasing him about the Caesarean she endured to get him out. Adults mistook him...
Call to the bar.(Icons)(McVeigh's)
March 1, 2004... To enter McVeigh's on weekend evenings, you must first pass Mel the doorman, a dark-haired, cross-armed behemoth who quietly asks a two-buck cover for the band. The redoubtable Mel started drinking at McVeigh's 24 years ago and has been working...
An agoraphobic's guide to Toronto: how to shop, eat, entertain and be pampered without ever leaving your house.
March 1, 2004... HOME AND GARDEN
For the terminal pack rat (who views yogurt containers as precious mementoes of breakfasts past) and the hopeless academic (who treats the floor as a filing system), Estelle Gee of Orderly Lives (416-461-8018,...
Ink, Inc.(Rituals)(tattoos)
March 1, 2004... I have a tattoo. It's a black panther about to spring, claws extended, teeth bared. It's on a bicep that has just been modestly inflated by four sets of 10 curls with a 25-pound dumbbell. A vein moves through the panther, animating its leap. I...
The storyteller: over half a century of filmmaking, he's created musicals, melodramas, romantic comedies and social justice pictures--24 movies in total. So why, at 77, is Norman Jewison still churning them out? Portrait of a director in love with his work.(Norman Jewison)
March 1, 2004... NORMAN JEWISON IS DOING HIS WILLIAM WYLER IMPERSONATION. WHEN HE RELAYS anecdotes about famous people who have passed through his life as friends and mentors, he likes to deliver their lines in his own approximations of their voices. He does a...
Now's the time to have the time of your life.(Club Med)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2004... Why hibernate when you can rejuvenate? Make the best of the long, cold Canadian winter. Escape it!
Those who have experienced Club Med know that there's no vacation like it. As the original all-inclusive vacation source, Club Med offers...
Dangling article.(Magic wand and a frock concert)(necklace)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... To craft this open-ended necklace, Toronto jewellery designer Kellie Leman hand-knit thin strands of steel into silky ribbons, encrusting each piece with rainbow clusters of Swarovskis. The result (besides raw fingertips) is a resplendent...
Outta this world.(Magic wand and a frock concert)(globes )(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Designed for kids three to six, this honeydew-size globe from VTech is a multi-sensory introduction to transoceanic travel. With the help of a joystick, tots can chart the course of a tiny, smiling pilot--jauntily outfitted in goggles and...
Heavens to Betsey.(Magic wand and a frock concert)(Betsey Johnson)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2004... Prom queens and other cocktail quaffers must be letting out shrieks of relief at the recent landing of Manhattan dress empress Betsey Johnson. With walls painted a cavity-inducing pink, the Yorkville perch is a party girl's sandbox of lace...
Scan artist.(Magic wand and a frock concert)(scanning pen)
March 1, 2004... This curious rod is a scanner in disguise, equipped to memorize roughly 100 pages (8 1/2 x 11) of text and graphics. Battery-operated, the Docupen is the accessory of choice for jet-setters and library addicts; it glides over copy, uploading...
Buffer zone.(Magic wand and a frock concert)(Gloomaway body buffer)
March 1, 2004... Emerging from winter can feel much like surviving a car wreck (you look terrible, but at least you're alive). Fortunately, Origins is stocked with luxurious chasers to cold weather's vanity killers. Because you and the sidewalk shouldn't share...
Pleasantville: quaint, picturesque and at a safe remove from big-city ills, Old Oakville is the perfect place to grow up. Meeting the town's expectations, however, is another matter.(Neighbourhoods)
March 1, 2004... OLD OAKVILLE IS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE who've made it go. You can imagine it, even if you've never driven the half-hour on the QEW to see it. The Victorian homes have shutters on the windows and historical society plaques near the doors (Capt....
Star quality: everything Jamie Kennedy has touched--from Scaramouche to JK ROM--has turned to gold. With his new wine bar on Church Street doing boffo business, the celebrated chef appears to have done it again.(Food)
March 1, 2004... ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-TWO GLEAMING Mason jars stand on the shelves at the hack of Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar--jars full of apricots like tiny orange suns, of scarlet peppers, purple beets and pale, slender jardiniere vegetables, heavy green...
Tasting notes.(Drink)
March 1, 2004... Hot dram It's winter in Toronto, when not even a beaker of Aussie shiraz can chase out that damp lake-borne chill worthy of a Scottish loch. Nothing to do but ramp up and have a dram of single malt-and perhaps an earnest discussion about peat,...
Acqua.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... ** 1/2
It's about as close as you'll get to dining alfresco in the blustery months, right beneath the ribbed, cathedral-high glass ceiling in BCE Place. This patio (of sorts) is cordoned off from the rest of the piazza by wrought iron...
Aqora.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... ***
In this architecturally interesting two-part space, black leather chairs contrast smartly with crisp white linens, and rows of waiting stemware sparkle in the brightness afforded by glass walls. The forward section feels much like a...
Tidbits.(Restaurants)
March 1, 2004... Johnny K (a.k.a. Johnny Katsuras) is at it again. Last May, he sold his restaurants--Gus, on Bay Street, and Lolita's Lust, on the Danforth--to caterer Sam Scanga. Now K and his wife, chef Laura Prentice, have created a very hip, low-budget den...
Bymark.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... *** 1/2
The design firm Yabu Pushelberg has outdone itself here, coaxing oodles of warmth from a minus-one-level, boxlike space where a low ceiling ends up signalling intimacy. Oat- and wheat-coloured surfaces, warmed by hundreds of...
Danula.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... [New]
***
At lunchtime, reservations are highly recommended; by dinner, you could walk into the place with a marching band and be comfortably seated. A shame, too, because Danula's inventive menu deserves to be experienced in a way...
Nectar.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... [NEW]
***
Friendly servers keep the deep-downtown crowd happy early in the week but may be overwhelmed by Saturday's crowds, who fill the long, narrow space to bursting. Beyond a smart little upfront lounge, much use is made of...
Profiteroles.(Restaurants)
March 1, 2004... With delicate pastry outside and a creamy middle, the profiterole is as much a French classic as a Hermes scarf or an Edith Piaf chanson. Choux pastry--named for its supposed resemblance to cabbage--is the essential element. After baking, each...
93 Harbord.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... [NEW]
** 1/2
No sign alerts the normally quick-witted Annex pedestrian to this elegant new eatery, though the fact that four or five much visited restaurants are located within 100 yards ensures that it will not go undiscovered for...
Blue Bay.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... ** 1/2
Sometime during the past several years, the big picture of the dodo disappeared. It symbolized Mauritius, the last stronghold of the doomed bird, an island where cuisines from Africa, India, the Far East and France now converge....
Boiler House.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... [NEW]
** 1/2
At once raw and chic, this cavernous, open space feels like a cross between an Amish barn and a Scandinavian airport. Intimate, flattering lighting illuminates a ground floor dominated by a long bar, behind which wooden...
Bar Mercurio.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... **
How charmingly Euro that one can waltz into Bar Mercurio at 10 o'clock on a Saturday night and still have to wait for a table. No matter: a cool marble bar makes a great vantage point from which to observe the delightful, mostly Italian...
Jamie Kennedy Wine Bar.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... [NEW]
***
The warm space buzzes with casual conviviality, its unpretentious furnishings brightened by funky Queen Street chandeliers and a wall of colourful preserves in Mason jars. Facing each other across the room, two bars centre...
Lakes Bar & Grill.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... ** 1/2
If Rosedale's silvery patricians are running up each other's backsides to pack the little yellow French joint up the street, the plebes are not much missing them at this long-time neighbourhood fare. The bar still buzzes at seismic...
Muse.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... ***
This place is about the good times, and a quote from Hesiod about forgetting troubles and dark thoughts is scrolled around the border of the ceiling to remind you. What classic Greek poetry has to do with a menu that riffs off...
Pastis Express.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... [NEW]
***
"Mocha chocolat" is how suave, welcoming host Georges Gurnon describes his comfortable bistro's new decor: brown banquettes, primrose accents and a mood that is casual but eminently civilized. The wine list is small, but...
Matignon.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... **
Neat as a pin, the two-storey townhouse avoids the cliches of candlelight and shadows in favour of unpretentious respectability. Framed posters hang on walls of white, blue or brick; regular customers (there are many) know to expect...
Babur.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... ** 1/2
On an Indian restaurant scene whose only consistency is inconsistency, veteran Babur hangs in as a haven of steady, sometimes heady sub-continental cooking. On slow nights, which now happen, the servers do good impressions of...
Truffles.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... *** 1/2
It remains the quintessential room for special occasions, the elegantly formal decor transcending fashion, the space configured to allow tables for display or near privacy. Service seems effortlessly attentive; the sommelier's...
Il Mulino.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... *** 1/2
Michael and Margi Pagliaro (former owners of Barolo) give Forest Hill one of the city's most sophisticated and accomplished Italian restaurants. Discreet lights cast leafy shadows onto a vaulted white ceiling; sunken halogens...
Silver Spoon.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... ** 1/2
Charming as ever, this uncluttered space with palest green wails is dotted with artistic black and white photos in frames, candies in thick glass sconces; a door-window front opens right out hi summon Other fine details: the pretty...
Lily.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... ***
Welcome to fusion decor: tres European features (mahogany bar, leather banquettes, room-length mirror) bow to the Rising Sun (Japanese lanterns, exotic prints), and suddenly one plus one equals three--Lily is a hugely warm and...
Rikishi.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... ***
The name--which literally means "a gentleman of strength"--is used for an officially registered sumo wrestler. Sounds odd for an unpretentious, tidy little room divvied up by wooden screens, but at least one big, anomalous-looking...
Ramboia.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... ** 1/2
The room sprawls, oddly cursed with an elevated TV whose reflection on the weirdly glossy ceiling morphs to flickering abstract art. But wait: the elevated half-moon banquettes and round tables are charming, and the welcome is most...
Mezzetta.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... **
The Gipsy Kings provide apt trans-ethnic background to a menu that draws widely from the Med basin. Mezze are Spain's tapas gone Moorish (though the evolution probably went the other way), appetizer-size portions of many things that can...
Calendar.(Advertising & Promotion Events & Opportunities)(Calendar)
March 1, 2004... Get the inside scoop on this month's hottest events and promotions from the following advertisers:
DE BOER'S
The De Boer's Annual Spring Sale, March 6 to April 3. Storewide price reductions on various furniture collections and...
Joso's.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... ***
In summer, the street-front patio looking out on ritzy boutiques is where everyone wants to sit. But it's much more fun inside: two floors of a dignified old house done up in outlandish colours, crammed with artwork of varying degrees...
Bombay Chopsticks.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... [NEW]
Squirrelled away in a sprawling suburban strip mall, it's tonier and prettier than it has any right to be. The specialty is Hakka-style Chinese with Indian accents thrown in for good measure. Nothing is over $11. Bombay Chopsticks...
Bordello.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... [NEW]
A new coat of paint and a thinning out of clutter have rendered the former True Grits even more retro-homey than before. Chef Isaac Tai proposes a southern Italian homestyle meal paced as a series of small, bargain-priced courses....
One of a Kind Pasta and Grill.(Restaurant Review)
March 1, 2004... [NEW]
Inside the small, dark wood-panelled resto, manager Angelo Vancheri ensures that water glasses are full and hot bowls of pasta are to everyone's satisfaction. The nondescript sign out front keeps passersby from being too curious,...
The Mousetrap: August 19, 1977--January 18, 2004.(The End)
March 1, 2004... It's one of the final performances, and the house is packed with old-timers. The very odours in the place hail from another age. The crowd's outerwear reeks of wet wool and mothballs. Once the coats come oft; yesteryear smells emerge: floral...
Escape plan: 257 routes to paradise.(2004 Toronto Life Getaways And Day Trips)
March 1, 2004... Time off is no small occasion. So why not postpone repainting the bathroom, cancel that dentist appointment, bury your bleating cellphone in a sock drawer and make the most of it? The Getaways and Day Trips guide provides a year's worth of...
Blue Heron Bed and Breakfast (1).(Heritage Inns)(Hotel Review)
March 1, 2004... Once a bustling mill town, today's Almonte has been rebuilt as condos, cafes and smart shops. The Blue Heron is a comfortable base for exploring the area's attractions. The recently renovated 1850s log and board-and-batten home has a wraparound...
Butternut Inn Bed and Breakfast (2).(Heritage Inns)(Hotel Review)
March 1, 2004... Named for the dignified tree that shades its garden, Port Hope's Butternut Inn was once home to the famous 19th century tightrope walker; the Great Farini. You can stay in his old bedroom, now decorated in an African motif, or in one of the...
Dr. Corbett's Inn and Hill and Dale Manor (3).(Heritage Inns)(Hotel Review)
March 1, 2004... Perched on a hilltop and surrounded by gardens, this gracious 19th-century Port Hope bed and breakfast boasts wide verandas ideal for taking in the unmatched view. The most requested of the six guest rooms are the ground floor's number one,...
Frontenac Club Inn (4).(Heritage Inns)(Hotel Review)
March 1, 2004... This stately limestone structure traces its history to 1845, when it was erected to house the Kingston branch of the Hank of Montreal. In 1905, abandoned by bankers, the building was joined with an adjacent residence to form an elite men's...
Hostellerie Pierre du Calvet (5).(Heritage Inns)(Hotel Review)
March 1, 2004... The oldest residence in Montreal's Old City, this 1725 stone building once played host to such notables as Benjamin Franklin, who is said to have plotted his revolution strategy here. Stone walls three feet thick, dark wood panelling, timbered...
Inn on the Twenty (6).(Heritage Inns)(Hotel Review)
March 1, 2004... One of the prettiest villages in wine country backs a serene 29-room hostelry appointed with down-filled settees, gas fireplaces, mahogany headboards, salvaged architectural ornaments, and then some: the two-level suites offer such luxuries as...
Kettle Creek Inn (7).(Heritage Inns)(Hotel Review)
March 1, 2004... Built in 1849 as the summer residence era local justice of the peace, Port Stanley's Kettle Creek Inn has since undergone extensive additions and renovations, all the while maintaining its small-town charm. Each of the inn's 10 guest rooms and...
King & Knight B&B (8).(Heritage Inns)(Hotel Review)
March 1, 2004... The 125-year-old Victorian red-brick house just across from the Trent Canal in Campbellford makes an ideal base for exploring this scenic district. Each of the two guest rooms has an ensuite bath; but for luxury, opt for the King Suite, where...
Slumber party: women-only excursions.(Heritage Inns)
March 1, 2004... Grand Experiences (1-888-258-0441) offers various canoe trips for women along the scenic and storied Grand River, departing from Paris Ontario. On the two-day Aboriginal Adventure, paddlers travel in a 12-person voyageur canoe to Kanata's...
Lantern Inn and Left Bank Restaurant (9).(Heritage Inns)(Hotel Review)
March 1, 2004... After many incarnations (once a factory, once a tenement), this 1845 building on the banks of Port Hope's Ganaraska River reopened in 2003 as a fine, small hotel, carefully renovated by the Rumgay family. Each of the 12 guest rooms features...
The Little Inn of Bayfield (10).(Heritage Inns)(Hotel Review)
March 1, 2004... A coach stop on the Huron Trail in the 1830s, this yellow-brick inn is a current favourite with foodies, who converge off-season for Saturday-night Wine and Dine events. The dining room's pine floors, exposed-brick walls and wrought iron...
Millisle Bed and Breakfast (11).(Heritage Inns)(Hotel Review)
March 1, 2004... Ottawa notables (Governor General Clarkson among them) make regular trips to the craft and specialty shops of Merrickville, a pretty village on the Rideau waterway. Tops on the town's list is Mrs. McGarrigle's Fine Food Shop (1-877-768-7827), a...