PORT ELGIN, Canada—Bluegrass tunes bellow from the beachside bandstand. The air is redolent with the scent of pine trees, hot sand, and aquamarine lake water. A group of black-clad Mennonite girls run, laughing, to the breakwater that shelters the beach. A lone goose cuts through the silver confetti of a seagull flock. It’s the summer tourist season in Port Elgin, Ontario, below the Bruce Peninsula on the windy shores of Lake Huron.
Port Elgin is one of three towns that make up Saugeen Shores in Bruce County, the other two being Saugeen Township and Southampton. The towns have several perfect white-sand beaches on Lake Huron and are close to MacGregor Point Provincial Park.
