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Tiki Wonder of the Far North: The Camelot Resort

by James Teitelbaum, author of Tiki Road Trip

Southern Canada... 200 miles north of Toronto. North Bay residents think of their little hamlet as being part of southern Canada (just barely: it is nicknamed "the gateway to the north"). Aside from being a picturesque vacation spot that gets busy during July and August, the area is probably best known as the place where the Dionne quintuplets were born in 1934. The small cabin that the quints called home is preserved as an attraction next door to a modern building offering a Dionne museum, an area visitors center, and a model train museum.

This little oasis of culture is the last frontier of humanity before the northward traveler leaves all pretense of civilization behind, in favor of dirt roads, bait stores, and moose. Fortunately, certain conveniences have crept as far north as North Bay, including as thrift stores, bad Chinese food, a few mid-century motels, and muffler shops that will replace the exhaust system on a 1994 Nissan Sentra in under an hour...[More]