Rails to Ales - Visiting Greater Toronto Area Breweries by GO Transit

In 2025, I read the The Secret History of the Five Eyes, about how the US, UK, Australian, Canadian & New Zealand spy agencies came to work together on intelligence gathering. Fascinating to me were the stories of William Stephenson, Canadian soldier, fighter pilot, businessman and spymaster and Camp X, a WW2 paramilitary / covert agent training facility just outside of Toronto. Looking at a map, the former Camp X facility is on Lake Ontario, not too far from the Oshawa GO train station. And there’s a brewery not too far from the Whitby GO station. I suggested to my wife we plan a day trip - take the GO train to Whitby, have lunch at the brewery, then walk along the lake towards Oshawa, see the Camp X memorial, and then walk to the Oshawa GO and make our way home. We did it, and it was a fun day, so we thought it would be fun to visit other breweries by GO. We’ve lived in Toronto for quite some time, and this was a fun way to explore beyond city limits, particularly without having to…

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