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5. CAPTAIN Hook's software exhibit and exchange NOT draw a single custHARDNOSED HARRY'S GUIDE TO ADAMCON02.  CANADA O CANADA. 
 
The following is a guide to ADAMCON02 and to Toronto Canada including suggestions ,insider tips & hints being made available to our United States Adamites, especially those from the southern United States who may think Canada, the ADAMCON02 site, may be very similar to their home cities.
 
 
A. Border Information:
   Passports to enter Canada or return to the United States are NOT required of U.S. Citizens.  However,, proof of citizenship must be caried; a birth certificate, voter's certificate will usually suffice.  Proof of residence may also be required. 
 
B. THINGS TO PACK: 
 
l.  Snowshoes, several pair, for both casual and dress situations. If you intend to attend the formal banquet, you will need a pair of snowshoes with black laces for the black tie formal banquet. 
 
2. Parkas (a parka is a big, downfilled coat with a fur lined hood that covers your average Canadian from his feet to his crown about ten months of the year. Goes a long way toward explaining why there's so few Canadians -- can't tell the girls from the polar bears and that's seriously inhibiting.) 
 
3. Mittens, several pair, at least one light weight one for keyboarding as its tough, keyboarding in these damn regular weight mittens. 
 
4. Alpo winter formula, many boxes for the dog teams which will be required to take you from place to place. 
 
5. Long flannel thermal underware, enough for the entire convention, as once you wash them and hang out to dry, they freeze solid and are difficult to use, even though clean.
 
 
C. GIFTS: CUSTOM DUTIES:
   $40.00 (Canadian) in value of gifts excluding tobacco, alcoholic beverages and advertising matter may be taken or mailed into Canada duty free.
   Returning to US, exemptions of $ 400.00 for residents who have been in Canada no less than 48 hours.  Based on retail value and not intended for sale. 
 
D. MORE THINGS TO PACK: 
 
6. Electric heating tape (of the type usually wrapped around water pipes in the winter to prevent freezing).  You will need to wrap this around all your cables, wires, connections, etc.  (As some of you will remember from physics class, electrons slow down and actually stop moving near absolute zero. 
 
7. Bricks, lead if possible.  To help weigh down your Adams so the strong winds do not blow them too far away. 
 
8. Sun glasses to block out glare from Northern Lights. 
 
9. Spray Can of De-icer similar to that used on car windows for your monitor screen.  (Ice scraper optional). 
l0. Your copy of CODOS, the Cold Oriented Disk Operating System. 
 
E. TRAVEL IN CANADA:
   Seat belt use is manditory.
   Use of Radar Detectors is illegal.
   Canadian Non-Resident Inter-Provincial Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance Card from your Insurance Company should be obtained if you plan to drive in Canada. 
 
F. LOCAL CUSTOMS, ETC. 
l. Royal Mounted Policemen are NOT tipped, although you might give their horse a lump of sugar or some other suitable treat such as fruit)for exception service. 
 
2. Polar Bears should not be kissed as your lips may freeze to theirs.  You may, at your own risk, dance with them.

 
G. THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT ONTARIO PROVINCE.
   Poplulation 9,ll3,500
   Capital Toronto
   Legal Drinking age is l9
   Retail Sales Tax: Ontario Retail Sales Tax Act exempts visitors from paying sales tax IF they use the goods OUT of the province.  This is done by having the vendor send the goods to your home or by taking the goods home within 30 days of purchase and apply for a rebate.
   
H. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 
l. Strongly suggested you purchase Joe Quinn's Abominable Snowman software disk and study the information thereon both to prevent encounters with Abominable Snowman and for the survival information contained thereon.  
 
 
I. TORONTO INFORMATION:
   Population 509,200 (metro area 2,137,395.
   Speed Limit is 50 KM/H or as posted.  (Use EZ-metric convertor to change to MPH)
   Right turns on red permitted, except where signs indicate otherwise.
   
J. OTHER GUIDES, BOOKS, ETC. OF INTEREST. 
 
l.  Hard Nosed Harry's Guide to Houses of Horizontal Recreation.  (Regularly $25.00, reduced for the convention to $l8.75). 
 
2. Helen's House of Horizontal Recreation Guide to Hard Nosed Harry (Find out why he is called Hard Nosed Harry amoung other things) (Regularly $ 2.98, specially priced for the convention at $239.00). 
 
3. How To See Canada on $5.00 PER DAY. (l962 Edition).  (Today's rates may be slightly higher). 
 
K. APPROACHES BY CAR & LOCAL TRANSPORTATION:
   Main approach routes from the south pass through either Buffalo, NY or Detroit Mich.
   For those of you bringing certain items of personal recreational use, Hard Nose Harry does sell a map of old logging and moose trails that are generally unknown and unpatrolled.  (Send cash, small bills to Hard Nose Harry, $225.00)
   Subway system is reasonable, clean and a good way to get around.
   Bus, trolley buses and streetcars complete the public transportation system.
   Taxis charge $2.00 for the lst 305 meters & 25 cents for each additional 305 meters. 
 
L. WHAT TO SEE .
   
l. Allan Botanical Gardens. Downtown indoor and outdoor horticultural exhibits, including Apples especially the MacIntosh variety. 
 
2. Art Gallery of Ontario & The Grange.  Over l5,000 paintings, sculptures, watercolors, prints and drawings.  Many made with Power Paint and some of the better ones made utilitizing the new program POWER TOOLS (Order from Reedy Software). 
 
3. Casa Loma. A chateau-type castle 9l metres high, built in l9l4 it required 3 years and $3 million dollars to complete.  (That buys alot of Walters Software, which any serious adamite can sure use.). 
 
4. City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square.  A striking complex includes two curve office towers, a two-story rotunda containing a grace column that serves as a pedestal for the domed amphitheater of the Council Chamber.  There is a reflecting pool which is converted into a skating rink in winter.  A MUST TO SEE, VERY STRIKING. 
 
5. CN TOWNER:  The tallest (553.33 metres) free-standing structure in the world.  Features a revolving restaurant at the 350 metre level, a night-club at the 346-metre level and observation points at 342,346 and 447 metre levels.  [Especially planned for the convention is a hand to hand combat battle between Adam software and hardware producers as part of the Adam Wars portion of the program.  This will take place at 553 metres at midnite of the opening nite] 
 
6. Fort York established in l793 has been restored to its l812 appearance.  
 
7. HOCKEY HALL OF FAME.  History of Hockey, including Stanley Cup. 
 
8. O'KEEFE CENTRE: An ultramodern limestone, glass and granite structure with an auditorium which seats over 3,000. (Which will just about hold all the admites). 
 
9. ONTARIO PLACE.  On 38.4 hectarces (thats a lot of land)the complex consists of five modules suspended over the lake on 32 metre concrete columns.  Exhibits include winding canals, lakes, lagoons, villaelike groups of shops and restaurants, a Children's village, a World War II destroyer, ll2 metre water-slide, Canadian Hall of Fame and more. 
 
l0. McLaughlin Planetarium.  See the stars. 
 
****Specical***** Helen's House of Horizontal Recreation, highly rated by Hard Nose Harry.  Not for families with young children. 
 
ll. Toronto Islands Park occupies the harbor islands opposite the downtown area. 
 
12. Ontario Science Centre.  A MUST for those with children as the HANDS ON exhibits let them really get into science. 
 
13. Metro Toronto Zoo.  More than 4000 animals including several of the more foul beasts which participated in the Adam wars. 
 
l4. TOURS.  Bus and trolley tours, boat tours and even a plane tour are available.  [Ron Collins tour of CPM land is highly recommended] [Rob Friedman's CIS tour and David Carmichael's Plink tours are also very worth-while] 
 
l5. Sports include hockey, football, baseball, thoroughbred racing, canoeing, golfing and even cross-country skiing (winter). 
 
l6. Shopping, shopping, shopping.  AT THE REQUEST OF SEVERAL ADAMITE HUSBANDS THE EXACT LOCATION OF SHOPPING AREAS WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED. 
 
l7. Dinning, nite-life, theater and concerts.  (Buy Hard Nosed Harry's guide to Dinning; guide to nite-life; guide to theater; and guide to concerts; and Hard Nosed Harry's Guide to Hard Nosed Harry's Guides. Each only $55.00). 
 
M. THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE BUT PROBABLY WILL NOT.  (THESE ARE ALL HARD NOSED HARRY'S SO DON'T GET MAD AT ANYONE ELSE). 
 
l. CODOS.  The Cold Oriented Disk Operating System designed to operate at cold Canadian temperatures.  
2. BJ fight a grizzly bear, armed only with a hard drive interface.  [Maybe make it two grizzly bears, we do want a fair fight] 
3. One of our more religious Adamites converting all those CPMers to EOS. 
4. CAPTAIN Hook's software exhibit and exchange NOT draw a single customer or visitor. 
5. Dan Decker calling Captain Hook a software pirate and being forced to walk the plank at sword point into Toronto Harbor. 
 
6. LE-SEX Shop in York.  (IF its still there after 20 years, since I last visited it, for purely scientific research purposes, of course). 
7. ANN get its l000th subscriber. 
8. The majority of the CPMers defecting and asking for political assylum. 
9. Starlink come to Canada. 
l0. A battle between Power Mate and Power Tools. 
ll. The look on the face of the MOAUG, GULF COAST AUG, EMERALD COAST AUG AND INLAND EMPIRE AUG Adamites when they step off the plane into the cold Canadian air. 
12. Nude body painting with Power Paints and other graphic software programs. 
l3. ADAMCON03 in Chicago, so us mid-westerners could attend. 
 
N. LANGUAGES SPOKEN
   l. English (As spoken in cultured countries such as England and Canada.)
   2. American (English as spoken by Americans)
   3. French.
   4. CP/M
   5. EOS
   6. GODOS.  
 
O. - Z.  (Parts O thru Z of Hard Nosed Harry's Canadian Convention tips, etc. were censored and could not be printed for various reasons including national security, international security and just good old plain good taste. 
 
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