About 50km (31 miles) east of Brockville along Route 2, Upper Canada Village, just east of Morrisburg (tel. 613/543-3704), is Ontario's effort to preserve its pre-Dominion past, a riverfront museum village representing frontier life in the 1860s. Some 40 brick-and-stone structures and interiors have been accurately restored using hand-forged nails and wooden pegs. They appear as if still inhabited, especially because they're occupied by costumed bilingual docents who perform the chores and crafts of the time (sew quilts, mill lumber, fashion tinware, conduct church services) and answer questions. In the woolen mill, the waterwheel turns the old machinery weaving wool into blankets, the bellows wheeze and hammers clang on anvils in the blacksmith's shop, and the heady aroma of fresh bread drifts from the bake shop near Willard's Hotel (early Apr to late Oct, stop at the hotel for lunch or high tea). "True Canadian" draft horses draw both tour wagons and the barge on the carp-filled canal cutting through from the river to a small lake behind the village. Admission is C$13 (US$9) for adults, C$12 (US$8) for seniors, C$9 (US$6) for students, and C$6 (US$4) for children ages 6 to 12; children under 6 are free, and families get a 10% discount. From May to Canadian Thanksgiving, it's open daily 9:30am to 5pm.