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Family getaways for New Year’s Eve

Location: McIntyre, Ont.

Price: Averages $875 per night

Sleeps: 10

Bedrooms: 4

Notes:

  • Waterfront property on private pond
  • Two hours from Toronto
  • Pontoon, canoe, and kayak available for use
  • Internet included
  • Laundry on site
  • 25 kilometres from Blue Mountain Village

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Location: Point Pelee, Ont.

Price: Averages $374 per night

Sleeps: 6

Bedrooms: 3

Notes:

  • Waterfront property on Lake Erie
  • Laundry on site
  • Internet included
  • Less than a kilometre from Point Pelee National park
  • No pets

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Location: McCraken’s Landing, Ont.

Price: Averages $1,250 per night

Sleeps: 7

Bedrooms: 3

Notes:

  • Near Stoney Lake
  • Laundry on site
  • Internet included
  • Outdoor hot tub
  • Fitness and games rooms
  • No pets

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Location: Sheba’s Island

Price: Averages $825 per night

Sleeps: 11

Bedrooms: 5

Notes:

  • Waterfront property on West Lake
  • Internet included
  • Laundry on site
  • Pets welcome
  • Fire pit
  • Three kilometres from Sandbanks Provincial Park

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Family getaways for New Year’s Eve

Location: McIntyre, Ont.

Price: Averages $875 per night

Sleeps: 10

Bedrooms: 4

Notes:

  • Waterfront property on private pond
  • Two hours from Toronto
  • Pontoon, canoe, and kayak available for use
  • Internet included
  • Laundry on site
  • 25 kilometres from Blue Mountain Village

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Location: Point Pelee, Ont.

Price: Averages $374 per night

Sleeps: 6

Bedrooms: 3

Notes:

  • Waterfront property on Lake Erie
  • Laundry on site
  • Internet included
  • Less than a kilometre from Point Pelee National park
  • No pets

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Location: McCraken’s Landing, Ont.

Price: Averages $1,250 per night

Sleeps: 7

Bedrooms: 3

Notes:

  • Near Stoney Lake
  • Laundry on site
  • Internet included
  • Outdoor hot tub
  • Fitness and games rooms
  • No pets

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Location: Sheba’s Island

Price: Averages $825 per night

Sleeps: 11

Bedrooms: 5

Notes:

  • Waterfront property on West Lake
  • Internet included
  • Laundry on site
  • Pets welcome
  • Fire pit
  • Three kilometres from Sandbanks Provincial Park

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Charming ski chalets for rent near Mont Tremblant that are perfect for families

Location: Lac Dufour

Price: Averages $650 per night

Sleeps: 5

Bedrooms: 4

Notes:

  • Waterfront property
  • Outdoor hot tub
  • Paddle boat and paddle board available for use
  • Indoor sauna
  • Laundry on site
  • Internet included
  • Eight minutes from Mont Tremblant Resort

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Location: Lac Labelle

Price: Averages $320 per night

Sleeps: 10

Bedrooms: 3

Notes:

  • Waterfront property
  • Laundry on site
  • Outdoor hot tub
  • Internet included
  • 25 minutes from Mont Tremblant Resort

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Location: Lac Superieur Village

Price: Averages $600 per night

Sleeps: 8

Bedrooms: 4

Notes:

  • Outdoor hot tub
  • Laundry on site
  • Internet included
  • Eight minutes from Mont Tremblant Resort
  • No pets allowed

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Location: Lac Superieur

Price: Averages $566 per night

Sleeps: 5

Bedrooms: 2

Notes:

  • Outdoor hot tub
  • Pool access
  • Max 4 adults
  • Internet included
  • Laundry on site
  • No pets
  • Six minutes from Mont Tremblant Resort

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Location: Lac Superieur Village

Price: Averages $459 per night

Sleeps: 8

Bedrooms: 3

Notes:

  • Shared pool (closed for winter)
  • Semi-detached property
  • Kayak and canoe available for use
  • Internet included
  • Outdoor hot tub
  • 10 minutes from Mont Tremblant Resort

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Location: Mont Tremblant

Price: Averages $375 per night

Sleeps: 6

Bedrooms: 3

Notes:

  • Hot tub
  • Outdoor fire pit
  • Laundry on site
  • Internet included
  • Less than 2 minutes from Mont Tremblant Resort

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Charming ski chalets for rent near Mont Tremblant that are perfect for families

Location: Lac Dufour

Price: Averages $650 per night

Sleeps: 5

Bedrooms: 4

Notes:

  • Waterfront property
  • Outdoor hot tub
  • Paddle boat and paddle board available for use
  • Indoor sauna
  • Laundry on site
  • Internet included
  • Eight minutes from Mont Tremblant Resort

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Location: Lac Labelle

Price: Averages $320 per night

Sleeps: 10

Bedrooms: 3

Notes:

  • Waterfront property
  • Laundry on site
  • Outdoor hot tub
  • Internet included
  • 25 minutes from Mont Tremblant Resort

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Location: Lac Superieur Village

Price: Averages $600 per night

Sleeps: 8

Bedrooms: 4

Notes:

  • Outdoor hot tub
  • Laundry on site
  • Internet included
  • Eight minutes from Mont Tremblant Resort
  • No pets allowed

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Location: Lac Superieur

Price: Averages $566 per night

Sleeps: 5

Bedrooms: 2

Notes:

  • Outdoor hot tub
  • Pool access
  • Max 4 adults
  • Internet included
  • Laundry on site
  • No pets
  • Six minutes from Mont Tremblant Resort

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Location: Lac Superieur Village

Price: Averages $459 per night

Sleeps: 8

Bedrooms: 3

Notes:

  • Shared pool (closed for winter)
  • Semi-detached property
  • Kayak and canoe available for use
  • Internet included
  • Outdoor hot tub
  • 10 minutes from Mont Tremblant Resort

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Location: Mont Tremblant

Price: Averages $375 per night

Sleeps: 6

Bedrooms: 3

Notes:

  • Hot tub
  • Outdoor fire pit
  • Laundry on site
  • Internet included
  • Less than 2 minutes from Mont Tremblant Resort

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Cottage real estate region: Lac la Ronge

A satellite map of 1,413 sq. km Lac la Ronge reveals an exceptional feature of this north-central Saskatchewan lake, which borders the Canadian Shield. Some 1,300 ice age–carved granite islands fill the lake’s northern half. Sand is rare along the granite islands, but there’s a beach nearly 40 kilometres long on the lake’s sparsely populated south shore. Lac La Ronge Provincial Park encompasses much of the lake, and most people lease land for their water-access cabins from the Saskatchewan government.

Because the area is so remote, cottagers usually visit for at least a week; many stay for the whole summer. Also, it can be difficult to get contractors out to these remote cabins. The government stipulates that cabin lots must be at least 800 metres apart or on separate islands, so quiet and solitude are the main attraction. There are about 20 title properties and 250 lease sites, most on islands. This far north, at 55 degrees latitude, summers are warm, short, and occasionally very windy.

The small town of La Ronge is the nearest centre and has groceries, a hardware store, a medical centre, and most services. Cottagers typically boat into Eagle Point Marina and drive the 5 km into town.

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Cottage real estate region: Bamfield

On the west coast of Vancouver Island, tiny, remote Bamfield sits on a protected inlet on Barkley Sound’s south shore. Bamfield Inlet divides the village, with a local water taxi linking the two sides. In West Bamfield, there’s the post office, a general store (with a premium selection of single malts, thanks to the local Scotch Club), and a pedestrian boardwalk cantilevered over the inlet. East Bamfield has a school, a café and market, a pub, and a building centre. Cottage properties overlook the sheltered inlet and exposed outer coast. In all weather, hikers explore the open beaches and lush rainforest trails, dodging fat yellow banana slugs. The West Coast Trail ends at Bamfield’s doorstep, traversing 77 km of coastline northward from Port Renfrew. The nearest centre is the city of Port Alberni, 76 km by road.

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Cottage rentals in Muskoka with a hot tub

Location: Lake of Bays

Price: Averages $615 per night

Sleeps: 8

Bedrooms: 5

Notes: 

  • 15 minutes from Algonquin Park
  • ATV and snowmobile rentals offered nearby
  • Pets allowed
  • Two and a half hours from Toronto

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Location: Rebecca Lake

Price: Averages $710 per night

Sleeps: 8

Bedrooms: 4

Notes:

  • Central air and central heating
  • Laundry on site
  • Canoe, kayak, and three paddle boards available for use
  • Two and a half hours from Toronto

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Location: Muskoka River

Price: Averages $675 per night

Sleeps: 10

Bedrooms: 5

Notes:

  • Central air conditioning
  • Laundry on site
  • One hour and 45 minutes from Toronto

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Location: Lake Vernon

Price: Averages $617 per night

Sleeps: 10

Bedrooms: 5

Notes:

  • Canoe and kayak available for use
  • Cedar plank sauna
  • Laundry on site
  • Includes dishwasher
  • Two hours from Toronto

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Location: Clear Lake

Price: Averages $714 per night

Sleeps: 16

Bedrooms: 6

Notes:

  • Laundry on site
  • Dishwasher included
  • No pets allowed
  • Less than three hours from Toronto

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Cottage real estate region: Thousand Islands and St. Lawrence River

Ontario’s portion of the mighty St. Lawrence River has two vastly different stretches. East of Brockville, the river flows wide and almost island-free. From Brockville west to Kingston and Lake Ontario, it flows even wider around a bewildering maze of islands. The Thousand Islands archipelago is the eroded remnant of billion-year-old mountain peaks, where the Canadian Shield lifts its ancient backbone through the rolling plains of Southern Ontario.

There have been cottages on the Thousand Islands for more than 100 years, and many are under fifth- and sixth-generation ownership. Communities date from Loyalist and American Civil War days, with strong ties across the border. Summer people today, just as in decades past, cottage on both mainland and island shores. They’re drawn to the granite landscape, the rich forests, and the myriad channels, large and small.

This area has perhaps Canada’s richest ecology: five of the continent’s forest regions converge here. The islands, more than 20 of which are in the Thousand Islands Nat­ional Park, attract visitors from around the world and boaters from all over Lake Ont­ario, who camp on them or drop anchor in their sheltered bays, making the area boisterous on summer days. A downside for cottagers is that security along the Canada-U.S. border means mandatory government check-in on both shores, no matter how short the visit. Regardless of this inconvenience, a large number of Canadian waterfront cottages are sold to Americans. Many properties, particularly on the mainland, are year-round homes.

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Cottage real estate region: North and South Shore, P.E.I.

Waterfront property has long been something of an industry in P.E.I., and the whole province is smaller than the Greater Toronto Area, so we’re talking about a limited commodity. The first wave of construction was from the 1940s to the 1960s, and some of these rustic places may be available. A place one or two lots back from the water, with easy access to the beach, will be more affordable, while true oceanfront will definitely cost more.

The north shore (the Gulf shore) is more commercialized, especially near Cavendish, a tourist draw as the childhood home of author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The beaches here are protected Parks Canada land. Properties in the vicinity, especially near the Crowbush golf course, come at a premium for P.E.I.

The south shore is somewhat less built up than the north and offers great swimming in the relatively warm Northumberland Strait. For bargains, check out both tips of the island, especially toward O’Leary at the western end. If the price for waterfront seems too good to be true, there’s one word to consider: erosion.

 

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Waterfront cottage rentals in the Kawartha Lakes under $300 a night

Location: Balsam Lake

Price: Averages $250 per night

Sleeps: 8

Bedrooms: 3

Notes:

  • Canoe and kayak available for use
  • Laundry on site
  • Less than two hours from Toronto

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Location: Fenelon Falls river

Price: Averages $275 per night

Sleeps: 8

Bedrooms: 2

Notes:

  • Canoe, kayak, and paddleboards available for use
  • Laundry on site
  • Air conditioning
  • Pets welcome

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Location: Sturgeon Lake

Price: Averages $285 per night

Sleeps: 7

Bedrooms: 2

Notes:

  • Aluminum boat with paddles available for us
  • Bunkie with a queen bed available for an additional fee (see pictures)
  • Propane barbecue (propane supplied)
  • Dock can accommodate up to a 24-foot boat

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Location: South shore of Balsam Lake

Price: Averages $200 per night

Sleeps: 6

Bedrooms: 3

Notes:

  • No pets allowed
  • $500 refundable damage deposit
  • Lots of parking

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