Canada's Fall Colors: 12-Day Ontario Road Trip – Niagara Falls, Ottawa & Toronto

Twelve days in Ontario in October, filmed on my phone: the mist of Niagara Falls, Parliament behind cranes, Highway 17 to Sudbury, Toronto at dusk, London, Ontario, and a last evening of Pakistani and Indian food at Ridgeway Plaza in Mississauga. About 2,400 km by rental car. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:45 Getting There 1:36 Niagara Falls 4:09 Ottawa 7:42 Highway 17 to Sudbury 9:15 Sudbury 10:55 Toronto 12:50 London, Ontario 13:36 Ridgeway Plaza, and Home 14:59 Final Verdict Photo credits (photos cropped and animated): • "Light trails in Toronto 20260627" by VynedJ, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=196031043 • "Highway 401 Night Lapse Busy" by kennymatic, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=10057066 • "Dewatered American Falls (1969) (Niagara Falls, northwest of Buffalo, New York State, USA)" by James St. John, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=86371425 • "Aerial View of Interchange Between Ontario Highways 401, 403, and 410" by Coolcaesar, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=195893671 • "Evacuated Highway 401 Color" by Kenny Louie, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=10535248 • "ONRoute, Port Hope, Ontario" by abdallahh from Montréal, Canada, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=91286944 • "ONRoute, Port Hope, Ontario" by abdallahh from Montréal, Canada, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=91286946 • "CF Rideau Centre Rideau St entrance 2025" by Canmenwalker, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=188891559 • "ByWard Market Building in Ottawa, Ontario" by Hayden Soloviev, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=198595809 • "Gatineau - QC - Museum of Civilisation3" by Wladyslaw, CC BY 3.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=12113382 • "Protected Roundabout in Kanata 1" by Lynxano, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=156898648 • "Highway 17 near Bissett Creek, Ontario, Canada" by P199, CC BY 2.5: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=1882601 • "⁨Deep River⁩, ⁨Ontario⁩, ⁨Canada⁩" by Hayden Soloviev, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=198595806 • "Uranium Atom monument in ⁨Deep River⁩, ⁨Ontario⁩, ⁨Canada⁩" by Hayden Soloviev, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=198595808 • "⁨Mattawa⁩, ⁨Ontario⁩, ⁨Canada⁩" by Hayden Soloviev, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=198595800 • "Canoe Manned by Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall" by Frances Anne Hopkins, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=93789938 • "Night" by Chad Martin from Sudbury ON, Canada, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=54127669 • "Downtown Sudbury 2025" by Platttenbau, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=175240819 • "Sudbury Geology Map Litza etal (2026)" by Nicolas B. Litza and coauthors, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=201739997 • "Melted Chaos from Sudbury Impact Crater " by Mike Beauregard from Nunavut, Canada, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=47455660 • "Chalcopyrite 1.85 Ga; 153 Orebody, Coleman Mine, Sudbury" by James St. John, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=40913809 • "Sudbury sunset" by P199, CC BY 2.5: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=1249789 • "The Classic Toronto skyline- taken from Ward's Island" by shankar s. from Dubai, united arab emirates, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=80871425 • "Exterior of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal" by Rick Ligthelm from Rotterdam, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=63558069 • "Distillery District, Toronto, Canada, 2006" by Mathew Ingram, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=3113208 • "Boxing Day at the Toronto Eaton Centre" by 松林 Ｌ from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=6670577 • "Canada geese at Toronto Eaton Centre" by Owen Byrne from Ottawa, Canada, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=5464678 • "Toronto- Yonge-Dundas Square" by The City of Toronto / Jose San Juan, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=169908732 • "Toronto street at night" by AL.Eyad from Cambridge, Canada, CC BY 2.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=180507116 • "The Thames River in London, Ontario as viewed from the University Drive Bridge" by Gogerr, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=174918231 • "Covent Garden (London, Ontario)" by Hannah Clover, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=201636581 • "Brampton City Hall 2021" by Canmenwalker, CC BY 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=118620503 • "Cold Sweet Paan - International Kolkata Book Fair 2013 - Milan Mela Complex - Kolkata 2013-02-03 4261" by Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0: commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=24466437 Map: Natural Earth. Route line approximate. Other footage and photos: Pixabay and Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / public domain). Music: Liquid Time - Aakash Gandhi (YouTube Audio Library) Fresh Fallen Snow - Chris Haugen (YouTube Audio Library) Desert City by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... A Flute's Mourning - Aakash Gandhi (YouTube Audio Library) The narration uses an AI clone of my own voice. Every number and fact comes from my own trip or public sources.