BRIGHTON APPLEFEST
The community of Brighton is situated in eastern Ontario and is surrounded by rich agricultural land with an abundance of apple orchards and roadside farmers stalls.
To celebrate the bountiful apple harvest in September
at the height of the apple harvesting season Brighton celebrates its annual Applefest festival.
While activities encompass the whole town of Brighton, most are centered around the main street. Events include BBQ's, entertainment, children's activities, dance's, a street fair, hay rides, car show, arts and crafts, midway and a parade.
 The Grand Trunk Railway the first railway running between Toronto and Montreal opened November 4, 1856. 32 Stations were built on this line and only 9 are left standing. The 1857 Brighton station was the only one built by a local brick manufacturer. In 1923 the G.T.R was purchased by the Canadian National Railway. The station was eventually closed in the 1960's when passenger traffic started to declined.
The Brighton Public Library (The Library) provides its users with access to the Internet and its resources.
Butterflies North and South
Carolinian woodlands
Carolinian Canada stretches from Windsor east to Toronto. The area contains the highest tree species diversity in Canada as well as being home to 25 percent of Canada's population. Sadly agriculture and urbanization have reduced the Carolinian woodlands to a few patches. Sections of this zone have received some form of protection such as Point Pelee National Park and Rondeau Provincial Park, however scientists feel that most of the protected areas are too small and isolated to be effective. The butterflies limited to this habitat are the
Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes)
and the Spicebush Swallowtail (P. troilus). The American Snout (Libytheana carinenta), and the Hackberry Emperor (Asterocampa celtis), are also mostly restricted to this habitat by their larval food plant hackberry (Celtis spp.).
Trent-Severn Waterway
The Trent-Severn is Canada's premier vacation waterway. Located in the heart of central Ontario, between the commercial heartland of Canada's largest city and the vast, serene wilderness of Algonquin Park, this 386 kilometre "highway" of lakes, rivers and canals connects Lake Ontario to Georgian Bay. Operated and managed by Parks Canada, the Waterway attracts thousands of visitors annually from all over the world.
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 Proctor House Museum
Proctor House is a Heritage Project supported by Save Our Heritage Organization and The Lower Trent Region Conservation Authority.
Photos of The Trent Canal by Web Shots
Presqu'ile Provincial Park
A mecca for birdwatchers every spring and fall, this peninsula south of Brighton is a major flyway for migrating birds, home to waterfowl and shorebirds, and a staging point for Mexico-bound monarch butterflies. A long boardwalk crosses wetlands where marsh birds live and fish spawn. On islands to the west, colonies of gulls, cormorants, terns and herons nest. At the tip of the park are Ontario's second-oldest operating lighthouse and the original lighthouse keeper's cottage.
Brighton Speedway Park has been established for 35 years and been operating under current management since 1980. It is located 100 miles east of Toronto in Brighton, just minutes south of the 401, in one of Canada’s most populated areas with nearly 10 million people at its doorstep.
The park is situated on approximately 60 acres of land on the shores of Lake Ontario. At present, stock car racing is featured every Saturday night on a 1/3-mile track from April 30th to October 2005.
Brighton Speedway is part of a growing sport that, according to statistics released by Goodyear, has seen attendance triple in the last decade. In the 2003 season, Brighton Speedway again drew over 20,000 people with 4 classes of stock car racing every Saturday night, and special events such as the SOS Sprint Cars, Endurance Races and Motocross Events.
RCAF Memorial Museum
Honorary Patron of the RCAF Memorial Museum:
The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the Hon. James K. Bartleman
THE MUSEUM IS WHEEL-CHAIR ACCESSIBLE AND MOTORIZED WHEEL-CHAIRS ARE AVAILABLE.
VISITING HOURS - SUMMER
Every Day Monday through Sunday
May 1 - September 30,
10.00 am to 5.00 pm
VISITING HOURS - FALL & WINTER
Only 5 days a week, Wednesday through Sunday
October 1 - April 30
10.00 am to 5.00 pm
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