Grand River Indiana

This is Ontario ~ by Katherine Hale, c. 1937.
Katherine's strategy for her journey:

"We decided that the first journey into southern Ontario would skirt this lake [Lake Erie] to Port Maitland, the mouth of the Grand River, from where we should explore its valley.  We were surrounded by maps and folders.  The patterns of these maps, woven of the cobweb lines of railroads and motor roads, dotted with towns and rivers and many series of minute lakes and islands, and the folders with their photographs and information about industries and tourists attractions failed to whet our sense of adventure.  We thought that there was only one thing for us, or anyone who intended to enjoy the road ~ it was to draw an extra map of one's own, which should be coloured with associations as well as facts.  It would be a map whose design is influenced by experience of travel, and would therefore be of unconventional outline.  We knew, for instance, that we would be sure to hurry by some dull, important monument and to pause with entranced interest beside another, to drive with pleasant or picturesque ghosts out of history, and to step on the gas if they became tiresome..."