Christopher "Ditch" Ross
Ditch is the pen name I write these guides under. When a guide says "I", that is me describing a place I've actually visited. Everything else I research from public sources and write in a plain guide voice.
I live in Fort Erie, Ontario, and I'm keen to find the undiscovered parts of Ontario towns, the ones the guidebooks skip.
Why you can trust me on this
- I visit the places I write about, and the guides say which parts I saw myself
- Building on the web since 1996, so I know how to check a fact before it goes on a page
- I live in Ontario, and I'll come to your town if you invite me
- Every guide names its sources, and mistakes get fixed in the open
What I've written here
- Cobalt: the silver boom that shaped Canadian mining, and the town that never grew back
- Cochrane: the polar bears everyone knows, and the man behind the coffee cup
- Gananoque: what to do before the boat, or instead of it
- Port Colborne: the last lock before the lake
- Thunder Bay: a church that serves coffee, and five more things worth the detour
Find me elsewhere
Get in touch
Email me at [email protected]. I read every message myself.