Port Hope Visitor Guide 2019
This is a place where you can slow down. If the weekend was a place, if the weekend was a philosophy, a conversation, a memory – this is where it would be. Port Hope is a place where you can shake hands with a farmer, snuggle a goat, take a dip in a cool lake, eat a meal fresh-picked from a local field, and breathe it all in. There’s room here. There’s quiet. There’s slow. And there are more ways to enjoy your day than weekends in a year. Come enjoy craft food, drinks and sunsets by the water. Explore quaint streets and scenic country roads. It’s the weekend.
This is a place where you can slow down. If the weekend was a place, if the weekend was a philosophy, a conversation, a memory – this is where it would be.
Port Hope is a place where you can shake hands with a farmer, snuggle a goat, take a dip in a cool lake, eat a meal fresh-picked from a local field, and breathe it all in. There’s room here. There’s quiet. There’s slow. And there are more ways to enjoy your day than weekends in a year. Come enjoy craft food, drinks and sunsets by the water. Explore quaint streets and scenic country roads. It’s the weekend.
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UNIQUELY PORT HOPE<br />
What is it that makes <strong>Port</strong> <strong>Hope</strong> a magnet for some wonderfully unique<br />
people? Maybe it’s living on the water that gives you a different<br />
perspective. Maybe it’s that small-town comfort where you can be<br />
anywhere in about 10 minutes and you know the people that you see along the<br />
way. Here are five memorable folks and a bit of their story.<br />
5PORT HOPE PEOPLE<br />
YOU GOTTA MEET!<br />
THE CHEF<br />
MATHEW THOMPSON<br />
Mathew has the secret to incredible fried chicken, one of his<br />
labours of love at Ganarascals, the Walton Street restaurant with<br />
the purple piano and Jenga (and action figures!) to amuse the kids. “It’s a three-day process,<br />
including two days in brine, so it stays juicy,” he says. Flour, spices and buttermilk are also<br />
key to the perfect Southern-style dish. Mathew created haute cuisine in Yorkville and then<br />
Vancouver—“I love the attention to detail and I love eating expensive food and liquor!”<br />
THE PHOTOGRAPHER<br />
ALANA LEE<br />
HERE’S WHY…<br />
“It’s a three-day process, including two days<br />
in brine, so it stays juicy”<br />
One day Alana was spring-cleaning her kitchen cupboards on a stepladder,<br />
fell and woke up three hours later feeling weirdly intoxicated. A neurologist<br />
diagnosed her with multiple sclerosis. “It turns out it was a seizure,” she says.<br />
Then five years ago, she had a serious attack and couldn’t see or walk,<br />
and spent a month in hospital. “I lost colour vision, but I could see light and<br />
shapes.” She still uses a cane and has regained much of her eyesight.<br />
A former genetic biologist, Alana picked up a camera to “exercise” her<br />
eyes and stimulate new brain pathways. She discovered a passion for<br />
photography, a whole lot of inner strength—and a new career. “You just<br />
have to face challenges,” she says. “You find a way or find a new path.”<br />
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<strong>2019</strong> PORT HOPE VISITOR GUIDE
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