Port Rowan
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Port Rowan is a town in Norfolk County, Ontario on Lake Erie, adjacent to Long Point. This lakeside community has a population of just under 1,000 and sports a number of small stores and a growing retirement population. Every Labor Day weekend, the town throws its annual Bayfest.
Local sports include angling and boating in the Long Point Inner Bay and golfing at Stark's Golf Course at the edge of town. Bird Studies Canada is based at Port Rowan. Port Rowan's future growth is currently at capacity with its water treatment system, which threatens future growth in the town and its burgeoning retirement community.
Its proximity to Long Point, a major bird flight-path, makes Port Rowan a popular destination for bird-watchers. Margaret Munro (2012-08-26). "Return of the ‘hoodies’: Tough little bird flies back from the brink of extinction" (in English). Port Rowan: Calgary Herald. http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/national/Return+hoodies+Tough+little+bird+flies+back+from+brink/7147293/story.html. Retrieved 2012-11-23. "Many of them are songbirds that migrate incredible distances to seek out the few remaining remnants of Carolinian forest that once dominated the region." </ref> Some of the few remaining stands the old growth Carolinian forest that were present all over Southern Ontario can be found near Port Rowan.
References
External links
Lore and Legends of Long Point, Harry B. Barrett, Burns and MacEachearn 1977, ISBN 0-887168-075-5
Long Point Last Port of Call, David Stone, Boston Mills Press, 1988, ISBN 0-919783-39-7
Waters Of Repose, Dave Stone and David Frew, Erie County Historical Society 1993, ISBN 1-883658-19-5
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