Petawawa sits in the Ottawa Valley, deep in Ontario's Renfrew County, where the Ottawa and Petawawa rivers converge and the Canadian Shield begins asserting itself through the landscape. It's a region defined by Canadian Forces Base Petawawa — one of the country's largest military installations — and by the rugged, forested character of the near-north. Golf here is unpretentious and rooted in community, the kind of game played between the pines without much ceremony.
Roanoke Golf Course serves a region where outdoor life runs year-round and the golf season, compressed by the northern Ontario climate, tends to be taken seriously when it arrives. The Shield terrain typically means sandy soil, mature conifers, and the sort of natural topography that gives a course movement without requiring much earthwork to be interesting.
A par-72 layout suggests a full, traditional test with room for both par-5 scoring opportunities and demanding two-shot holes. Without pretension to resort polish, Roanoke reads as a genuine local track — the kind of course a community actually uses, season after season.
