Upper Canada

Few golf courses carry the weight of history quite like Upper Canada does. The course sits in Morrisburgh, a small St. Lawrence River town in eastern Ontario whose own story is one of dramatic transformation — the original village was deliberately flooded in 1958 during the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, with residents relocated to higher ground. That act of erasure and reinvention gives this stretch of river country a quietly haunted quality that seeps into everything here, including a round of golf.

The St. Lawrence corridor is spectacular terrain for the game: flat to gently rolling, framed by the wide river and the Thousand Islands region to the west, with the kind of firm, open conditions that reward shot-making over power. Summers bring long days and a dry warmth that keeps the turf fast, while autumn turns the surrounding hardwood forests into something genuinely worth stopping to look at between shots.

Upper Canada is the sort of course where the landscape does real work. For visiting golfers, the combination of river views, regional history, and a relaxed small-town pace makes it a worthwhile detour off the 401 corridor.