A twenty-room country inn on the Richelieu with its own forty-slip marina, ten of them kept for visiting boats. Rooms look over the river from private balconies, and dockage buys the pool, the seasonal outdoor hot tub, the showers and the dining room. For anyone running the Chambly Canal between Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence, it is the most straightforward place on the river to tie up and sleep ashore.

The largest log structure in the world, built as a private club in 1930, with its own club nautique on the Ottawa River below the lawns. Gas, diesel, pump-out and 30/50-amp power at the dock — a level of service almost nothing else on this stretch of river offers. Transient space is scarce: five docks out of a hundred berths, at a premium per-foot rate.