Small towns have a way of surviving and will as long as family connections to them stay intact.

Living on Long Point during the winter the sight of Port Rowan’s friendly, twinkling lights across the bay is reassuring. The Causeway is our only connection to civilization, at least in the form of food, gas and any form of tobacco one might still use.

The place is our lifeline and retains a charm and character all its own. Here one of Lake Erie’s prettiest port towns has embraced expansion in a way that works for everybody involved. People living in the adjacent well -kept subdivision refer to themselves as being part of what are simply called The Villages, which encompasses neighbouring St. Williams.

Whoever thought up the concept is a genius; it imparts a feeling of being part of a close-knit community.

The secret, or one of them, I think, is to keep the core of these places intact. Downtown Port Rowan, or just “Port”........

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