J.J. ,I think the closest I've been to being in Canada is being born in Erie (in a smaller town within called Corry),
watching channel 11 out of Ontario
and my family visiting Niagra Falls when I was 3.
My Dad was from Niagra but on the American side.
#26 can be a line from "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald".
"With a load of iron-ore "26" thousand tons more,than the E.F. weighed empty."