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Townships of Head, Clara and Maria

After Pembroke and Rapides-Des-Joachims, we followed the Trans-Canada Highway, looking for places to explore on that rainy weekend. As soon as I saw a sign saying “Head, Clara and Maria,” I wanted to check out the place. What a funny name!

Head, Clara and Maria is a township in Eastern Ontario, in the County of Renfrew on the Ottawa River. The townships stretch along 60 kilometres of Highway 17. All the activities are located nearby the road, the rest is mostly wilderness. Population is only a bit under 300 people, with a density of… 0.3/km2. That’s Canada for ya!

We spotted a railway in Stonecliffe. If I understood the local history right, it is part of the Brockville—Ottawa railway, later know as the Canada Central and then the Canadian Pacific Railway, the transcontinental railway scheme.

I love disused places and railroad tracks, so I couldn’t resist snapping a few pictures.

Stonecliff
Braken
Feng, Thinking
Logs
Private Property (Okay, Got The Message!)
Railroad Tracks
Ready To Jump…
Jumping!
Holding Hands
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Zhu

French woman in English Canada.

Exploring the world with my camera since 1999, translating sentences for a living, writing stories that may or may not get attention.

Firm believer that nobody is normal... and it’s better this way.

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