About Us
About the Property
Of the 650 acres owned by the Dennis family, 400 acres comprise Otter River Farms. These include two miles of riverfront, innumerable ravines, several farm fields, and abundant managed forest. There are four ponds all designed for wildlife. Two of them have docks for catch and release bass fishing and access for swimming. Tucked amongst giant maples, walnuts, shagbark hickory, pine, and tuliptree are many outbuildings, most dating to the 1800s. The land's history is evident in the old farm tools and machinery that can be found on the property.There are three distinct elevations:
- creekside, with swamp areas, turtle pond, and flats
- middle level, with two ponds for swimming and fishing, tree plantations, farm fields, mixed hardwood forests, hemlock, pine
- upper level, with mixed forests, tree plantations, farm fields, and pre-1900 buildings
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About Doug
Doug & Sandi Dennis
Doug receiving Carolinian
Canada Conservation Award
Doug and Tom Bird
Tom was the first weatherman on the London television station.
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About Christine Dennis
On the property is the home of Christine Dennis and husband Sean Grantham. Christine is a medical herbalist who trained at the esteemed University of Wales. She is one of only a small handful of people in North America with this specific level of herbal medicine training and education. Christine offers workshops, student clinics, herb walks and seminars. For more information visit her web site www.christinedennis.ca.History
Loyalists Settling Upper Canada
Like many soldiers, he liked to drink. Vienna, the closest watering-hole, was a booming, prosperous lumber town in the mid 1800s, second only to the Ottawa valley in timber production. Vienna was also the home of the famous Edison family as well as Upper Canada's second high school.
Regardless of the weather, McQuiggan would walk the river road to and from Vienna. One night he failed to return home and was eventually found dead in a snow drift. But the story of hard-drinking McQuiggan lives on, and the road to Otter River Farms bears his name.
British army winning the war of 1812,thus saving Canada
British Troops Fighting War of Independence
Pioneers Clearing the Land
Artifacts Found in the area left behind by the Neutral Indians who were wiped out in the Huronian Wars by the Iroquois