Mary's friends

[RJNorton]

Eva, this page does not totally clarify the 1857 and 1848(?) trips, but it does deal with the overall topic.

http://buffaloah.com/h/fagant/linc.html

As far as I know, the only time (for certain) that Lincoln was in Canada was the 1857 trip.

Regarding Bath Island and Goat Island, author Daniel Mark Epstein writes:

"Crossing the bridge to the pine-wooded Bath Island, they stopped at the little wooden tollhouse. They paid 25 cents apiece and wrote their names in the ledger allowing them passage back and forth across the bridge during their three-day visit. From Bath Island they crossed another bridge to Goat Island. For anyone who loved flowers as much as Mary did, this was a Garden of Eden. Goat Island, an area smaller than Kew Gardens in London, had more native varieties of trees and flowers than any other spot on earth. Among the hundreds the Lincolns had never seen were the Virginia creeper, the American hornbeam, red mulberry, wild crabapple, staghorn sumac, purple flowering raspberry, elderberry, and snowberry. Many were in blossom that time of year; several kinds of asters, blue and red, the common yarrow, daisy fleabane, boneset, and tall goldenrod."