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Heart Island’s Tragic Love Story

Boldt Castle is known as the castle that love built on an island aptly called Heart.

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1000 Islands Wildlife

The world famous 1000 Islands is known for its castles, cottages and natural beauty including wildlife such as loons, Osprey, Great Blue Heron, deer and other creatures that call this place on the St.Lawrence River home.

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1000 Islands Lighthouses

The 1000 Islands is home to historic lighthouses that tell the stories of our marine heritage, shipwrecks, pirates and the River we keep. Some of the lighthouses are open to the public as museums while others were bought from the government and modernized as private cottages. The Saint Lawrence Seaway was built in 1959 […]

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Soldiers’ Story

At one time, over a century ago, this tranquil island called Leek Island near Gananoque, was a refuge for war-torn soldiers. It was about as far away as one could get from the battlefields across an ocean in World War I. Today, it is known as Thwartway Island, a Thousand Islands National Park of Canada […]

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1000 Islands Boathouses

The 1000 Islands is internationally-renowned for its castles and cottages but one cannot overlook another architectural gem: The beloved boathouse. Some are over a century old built as lavish retreats on their own, with bedrooms, dining rooms, fireplaces and even ballrooms. Grand boathouses dotted the River during its Golden Age when wealthy business barons […]

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Surveyor Island: 1000 Islands Cottage and Family Tradition

This Canadian island near the Thousand Islands International Bridge has been owned by the same family for nearly a century.

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One Thousand Islands. One Thousand Stories.

Boldt Castle, the castle that love built, in the 1000 Islands in 1904 near Alexandria Bay N.Y. Photo by Kim Lunman/Island Life Magazine

Heart Island’s Tragic Love Story

Boldt Castle is known as the castle that love built on an island aptly called Heart.
1000 Islands Wildlife

The world famous 1000 Islands is known for its castles, cottages and natural beauty including wildlife such as loons, Osprey, Great Blue Heron, deer and other creatures that call this place on the St.Lawrence River home.
Quebec Head Lighthouse at Wolfe Island. Photo by Kim Lunman/Island Life Magazine

1000 Islands Lighthouses

The 1000 Islands is home to historic lighthouses that tell the stories of our marine heritage, shipwrecks, pirates and the River we keep. Some of the lighthouses are open to the public as museums while others were bought from
Thwartway Island. Photo by Kim Lunman.

Soldiers’ Story

At one time, over a century ago, this tranquil island called Leek Island near Gananoque, was a refuge for war-torn soldiers. It was about as far away as one could get from the battlefields across an ocean in World War
Ivy Island: Boathouses like this one near Ivy Lea dot the 1000 Islands. Photo by Kim Lunman.

1000 Islands Boathouses

The 1000 Islands is internationally-renowned for its castles and cottages but one cannot overlook another architectural gem: The beloved boathouse. Some are over a century old built as lavish retreats on their own, with bedrooms, dining rooms, fireplaces and
Surveyor Island by the Thousand Island International Bridge near Ivy Lea. Photo by Kim Lunman

Surveyor Island: 1000 Islands Cottage and Family Tradition

This Canadian island near the Thousand Islands International Bridge has been owned by the same family for nearly a century.
Carleton Villa has been abandoned for over 7 decades. Today it is for sale for $495,000 US. Photo by Kim Lunman

Carleton Island’s Spooky Villa and Haunting History

In the market for a haunted house on an island? Or at least a good story about one? Then look no further than the abandoned villa on Carleton Island near Cape Vincent N.Y. in the world famous 1000 Islands.This ghost
Heron Cay Island. Photo by Kim Lunman

Heron Cay Island

Sailors Raymond and Sheila Buhr found themselves on an unchartered voyage four decades ago when they discovered this 1000 Islands hideaway known as Heron Cay.

Boating

An antique wooden boat passes the statue of the St. Lawrence near Rockport in the heart of the 1000 Islands. Photo by Kim Lunman.

River Boat Fantasy

I love boat watching in the 1000 Islands. There is nothing better than River traffic. It is the only traffic ... Read More
The 1000 Islands Harbor Hotel in Clayton N.Y. , which is known for its classic wooden boats. Photo by Kim Lunman

Classic Clayton New York

Welcome to Clayton. Nothing defines this coastal New York village better than classic wooden boats and the River that hugs ... Read More
Boat Parade! Cobalt boaters join a cruise with Rockport's Ed Huck Marine in the St. Lawrence River's Middle Channel. Photo by Kim Lunman.

1000 Islands Boating

The 1000 Islands is a boater's paradise. Come explore this amazing archipelago and the boats that inhabit this water world. ... Read More
The 1000 Islands Tower on Hill Island can be seen from Ivy Lea.

Island In the Sky

Konrad and Heidi Linckh are on top of the world. The German couple, the newest owners of the 1000 Islands ... Read More

The Thousand Islands

It’s Kismet

Written by Kim Lunman on November 13, 2018 in The Thousand Islands

What’s in a name? The dictionary defines ‘Kismet’ as “a power that is believed to control what happens in the future.” This Canadian island called Kismet is linked in history to a lavish steam yacht of the same name.

The Pilot’s Dream

Written by Kim Lunman on November 9, 2018 in The Thousand Islands

Paul Island It’s the towering tree that you first notice about this small island just west of Brockville. It almost resembles a palm tree from a distance. But this is nowhere near the tropics not even on this humid August afternoon. The solitary Elm tree looms large over Paul Island in the Amateur Group […]

Treasuring Tremont Island

Written by Kim Lunman on October 3, 2018 in Island Life Magazine, The Thousand Islands

Tremont Island is a charming cottage colony off the shores of Gananoque known for one of its most famous former residents: The inventor of Sees Candies: Mary See.

One in The Thousand

1000 Islands Bridge Celebrates 80 Years

Written by Kim Lunman on December 5, 2018 in One in The Thousand

The Thousand Islands International Bridge connecting Ontario and New York marks an historic bridging of two nations over one River: The St. Lawrence.

The Voyage Continues: Island Life Magazine 2018

Written by Kim Lunman on November 10, 2017 in One in The Thousand

Island Life Magazine is the premier glossy magazine about the Thousand Islands in the Thousand Islands distributed in Ontario and New York. Island Life Magazine 2018 features an aerial photograph of Sunken Rock Island near Alexandria Bay N.Y. The issue showcases the world famous 1000 Islands with new stories and photographs of this amazing […]

The Brock Isles

Written by Kim Lunman on November 1, 2017 in One in The Thousand

Brockville calls itself “The City of the 1000 Islands” for a reason: It owns a number of them in its own backyard on the St. Lawrence River. The municipality purchased 29 islands for park purposes in 1933 from the federal government for the grand sum of $3,631. Today, 16 have been designed for public use […]

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