Gone in 60 Minutes: how to get from the office desk to the cottage dock in about an hour
Top down and open road used to be the best way to get to the cottage, but that was before highways became parking lots, crammed with expletive-spewing drivers all thinking the same thing: there’s got to be a better way. Turns out there is. Here, we show just how fast the city’s luckiest cottagers get from Billy Bishop Airport to their northern oases.
Chairman, Wind Mobile
His plane: 2012 Lancair Evolution Turbo Prop (approx. retail value: $945,000)
His cottage: Lake Muskoka
Estimated air time: 20 minutes
Other destinations: New York; Montreal
CEO, Porter Airlines
His plane: 1979 Cessna A185F amphibious float (approx. retail value: $190,500)
His cottage: Lake Rosseau, Muskoka
Estimated air time: 45 minutes
Owner, Red Canoe–National Heritage Brands
His plane: 1974 Cessna 182P amphibious float (approx. retail value: $98,500) co-owned with Brett Bastin
His cottages: Two bush camps near Sudbury
Estimated air time: One hour, 45 minutes
Other destinations: Washington, D.C.; Kitty Hawk, N.C.
President, Design Lab;
interior decorator
His plane: 1963 Cessna 182F float (approx. retail value: $87,500)
Their cottage: Near the Umbrella Islands, Georgian Bay
Estimated air time: One hour, 10 minutes
Other destinations: Washington, D.C.
Former chairman, Weston Foundation
His plane: Cessna A185F amphibious float (approx. retail value: $144,000)
His cottage: Pointe au Baril, Georgian Bay
Estimated air time: One hour, 15 minutes
Other destinations: Major North American cities; takes disadvantaged kids on first plane rides over Lake Ontario
Chairman, Sherritt International
His plane: Socata TBM 850, Turbo Prop (approx. retail value: $2.7 million)
His chopper: EuroCopter EC 120B (approx. $771,500)
His cottage: Georgian Bay, north of Wiarton
Estimated air time: 45 minutes
Other destinations: Arctic Circle; Barbados
Philanthropist
His plane: 1974 Cessna 180J (approx. retail value: $85,000)
His cottage: Balsam Lake in the Kawarthas
Estimated air time: 26 minutes
Other destinations: Sherbrooke (he’s chancellor of Bishop’s University); Montreal; Mexico; India; Africa
Chairman, Northleaf Capital
His plane: 2008 Cirrus SR22 (approx. retail value: $251,000)
His cottage: 31 Mile Lake, Gatineau Lakes
Estimated air time: One hour, 15 minutes
Other destinations: New Brunswick for fishing; Boston; Baltimore
President, BMO Capital Markets
His plane: 2008 Pilatus PC12 Turbo Prop (approx. retail value: $2.8 million)
His cottage: Mont Tremblant
Estimated air time: One hour, 15 minutes
(Images: Airport by iStock; Lacavera by Getty Images; Deluce by Getty Images, plane by Bruce Vinal; Wilkinson by Douglas Gauthier; younger plane by Bob Hirshberg; Dalglish by Getty Images, plane by Barry Griffiths; Delaney by Getstock, plane by C. Peyton; Griffin by Getstock, plane by Kevin Porter; MacLellan plane by Steven Homewood; Tripp plane courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
His cottage: Lake Muskoka
Estimated air time: 20 minutes
Other destinations: New York; Montreal
ROBERT DELUCE
CEO, Porter Airlines
His plane: 1979 Cessna A185F amphibious float (approx. retail value: $190,500)
His cottage: Lake Rosseau, Muskoka
Estimated air time: 45 minutes
DAX WILKINSON
Owner, Red Canoe–National Heritage Brands
His plane: 1974 Cessna 182P amphibious float (approx. retail value: $98,500) co-owned with Brett Bastin
His cottages: Two bush camps near Sudbury
Estimated air time: One hour, 45 minutes
Other destinations: Washington, D.C.; Kitty Hawk, N.C.
ALEXANDER YOUNGER AND SARAH RICHARDSON
President, Design Lab;
interior decorator
His plane: 1963 Cessna 182F float (approx. retail value: $87,500)
Their cottage: Near the Umbrella Islands, Georgian Bay
Estimated air time: One hour, 10 minutes
Other destinations: Washington, D.C.
GEORDIE DALGLISH
Former chairman, Weston Foundation
His plane: Cessna A185F amphibious float (approx. retail value: $144,000)
His cottage: Pointe au Baril, Georgian Bay
Estimated air time: One hour, 15 minutes
Other destinations: Major North American cities; takes disadvantaged kids on first plane rides over Lake Ontario
IAN DELANEY
Chairman, Sherritt International
His plane: Socata TBM 850, Turbo Prop (approx. retail value: $2.7 million)
His chopper: EuroCopter EC 120B (approx. $771,500)
His cottage: Georgian Bay, north of Wiarton
Estimated air time: 45 minutes
Other destinations: Arctic Circle; Barbados
SCOTT GRIFFIN
Philanthropist
His plane: 1974 Cessna 180J (approx. retail value: $85,000)
His cottage: Balsam Lake in the Kawarthas
Estimated air time: 26 minutes
Other destinations: Sherbrooke (he's chancellor of Bishop's University); Montreal; Mexico; India; Africa
ROB MACLELLAN
Chairman, Northleaf Capital
His plane: 2008 Cirrus SR22 (approx. retail value: $251,000)
His cottage: 31 Mile Lake, Gatineau Lakes
Estimated air time: One hour, 15 minutes
Other destinations: New Brunswick for fishing; Boston; Baltimore
ERIC TRIPP
President, BMO Capital Markets
His plane: 2008 Pilatus PC12 Turbo Prop (approx. retail value: $2.8 million)
His cottage: Mont Tremblant
Estimated air time: One hour, 15 minutes
(Images: Airport by iStock; Lacavera by Getty Images; Deluce by Getty Images, plane by Bruce Vinal; Wilkinson by Douglas Gauthier; younger plane by Bob Hirshberg; Dalglish by Getty Images, plane by Barry Griffiths; Delaney by Getstock, plane by C. Peyton; Griffin by Getstock, plane by Kevin Porter; MacLellan plane by Steven Homewood; Tripp plane courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)){kind=link}
Thank you for publicizing the destruction of the environment through the jet setting antics of the power elite, and implicitly supporting the expansion of the Toronto Island Airport by Robert Deluce, and the polluting of Toronto’s Waterfront and Toronto Island Parks by jet exhaust and noise. Not only that, this jet traffic is very unsafe for Toronto downtown residents in terms of security and accidents.
12.5 visitors to the Waterfront, and 1.22 international tourists, parks visitors and families are far more important than these people you continually vet- no? How selfish.