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Cochrane, Ontario - Now, here's an experience that will astound your friends back home. At the award-winning Polar Bear Habitat and Heritage Village in Cochrane Ontario you can 'swim with the polar bears'. There's a wading pool beside the polar bear pool and while you are in it you are separated from the great white giants by a very thick protective glass divider. Both children and adults can try it.The Habitat is open year-round, but the 'swim with the polar bears' is only available in the summer. The town is the departure point for the 300-kilometre (186-mile) Polar Bear Express rail journey, which takes you to Moosenee - at the edge of the arctic, on James Bay. Cochrane is also the birthplace of Tim Horton, the hockey player who launched Canada's incredibly popular coffee (and doughnut!) chain. There is a Tim Horton Events Center in town, and a Tim Horton museum is in an old railway car at the local Railway Museum. |
Where: Cochrane is a 7 hour drive north of Toronto. It's located about 100 km (62 miles) north of Timmins on Hwy 11. This is part of Yonge St, which at more than 1800 km is known as the longest street in the world (this is also part of the Trans-Canada Hwy.) You can reach the town by plane, bus, and six days a week from Toronto using the Northlander rail service. Fishing, canoe tours, houseboating, ATV tours, rail tours, snowmobiling and trail riding are popular visitor activities. From Chochrane you can take the Polar Bear Express, a summer service that takes you 186 miles north to Moosonee, on James Bay, the edge of the Arctic. You can make that a day trip or join a two or three night package tour.
More Central and Northern Ontario 'Cool': World's most connected canoe routes I Sudbury's Neutrino observatory 2 km beneath the ground I Shania Twain's Hometown I Killarney - the wilderness park that was saved by a group of artists I White River and Winnie the Pooh I Thunder Bay - Terry Fox Courage Hwy I Where Shania Twain got her start I World's first Dark Sky Reserve I Gravenhurst & Bethune - pioneer of first mobile blood transfusion units I World's longest freshwater beach
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