kingsville
Kingsville
Where Daddy lives now. Ontario's southernmost town, same latitude as northern California.
Real World
Kingsville sits on the shore of Lake Erie - the warmest climate in Canada. Wine country. Migratory birds. A town that feels like it's holding onto something gentle.
Key Locations
Canadian Transportation Museum & Heritage Village
- 100 acres, 25,000 square foot museum
- The "automotive museum" where the time vortex lives
- The big tree with Big Green Toad's new 100th floor penthouse
- Pioneer village that becomes real when the vortex activates
Jack Miner Bird Sanctuary
- Established 1904 - over 120 years of birds
- Feed the migratory birds, walk the forest trails
- An open-air museum with historical buildings
- Potential: Where do the birds go when they migrate? Could they carry messages?
Lakeside Park
- Walking paths, playground, splash pad, beach
- Toboggan hill in winter
- Lakeside gardens on Lake Erie
- Potential: What's under the lake?
Colasanti's Tropical Gardens
- Greenhouse full of exotic and tropical plants
- Petting zoo, mini-golf, arcade, rides
- Potential: A jungle inside a building - portal to somewhere warm?
The Daily Geography
Daddy lives here. The kids visit. The drive to school goes through here to Amherstburg.
What does the new house have?
- A tree with a hole at the base (the new entrance)
- The backyard where the puddle-ocean forms
- The place where the shrinking potion arrives
Magical Overlay
Established:
- The Hole at the base of the tree → entrance to Magic Kingdom
- The automotive museum → time vortex, Big Green Toad's tree
Potential:
- Bird sanctuary → messenger network?
- Lake Erie → underwater realm?
- Colasanti's → tropical portal?
Daddy's town. Where the new magic lives.
North
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- Linking Kingsville to places collection
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East
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- Linking the two towns - the daily drive
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South
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- Kingsville attraction
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- Kingsville park
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- Kingsville sanctuary
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