This is one of our beautiful trails.

Every year, the Province of Ontario runs a contest for Cities and Towns who have the most beautiful gardens. It is called City in Bloom. Oshawa has won this award numerous times.

This is Parkwood Estate. Besides the Trails, Parkwood Estate has to be my favourite place in Oshawa. Every Mother's Day, a Tea is held for Mothers to come and enjoy. At Christmas, the Estate is beautifully lit and the grounds are immaculately kept.

"Parkwood is one of Canada’s finest and last remaining grand estates, featuring architectural, landscape and interior designs of the 1920’s and 1930’s. Once home to auto baron R. Samuel McLaughlin (founder of General Motors of Canada), Parkwood is praised by Canada’s Historic Site and Monuments Board as “a rare surviving example of the type of estate developed in Canada during the inter-war years, and is rarer still by its essentially intact condition, furnished and run to illustrate as it was lived within.”

Parkwood was the family home of the McLaughlins from 1917 until 1972. The majestic estate that was once a private enclave to be experienced by a select few is now a National Historic Site, open year-round to be enjoyed by all. The large property still retains its original essence as the private abode of a prominent Canadian family, reflecting not only the personal interests and tastes of its owner, but also five remarkable decades in history as Canada and the world embraced both the automobile and 20th century technology."