Welcome to The Mad River.com in Bancroft, north Hastings County, Ontario!
Art Supplies & Used Book Exchange
Fair Trade, organic & gourmet coffee & tea
Homemade fudge, JellyBelly jelly beans, Vintage Candy
Kawartha Dairy Ice Cream
Beading Supplies
Rocks and minerals, Guided mineral collecting day trips, mineral jewelry
Antiques &Collectables
Thermohair Socks
Canadian Made 'Sitting Pretty' Hammocks and Rope Rockers
Estate and Current Jewellery
New and Collectable Gaming Cards including Magic the Gathering
NEW CAFE - INTERNET ACCESS

Rocks and Minerals
Fine selection of minerals from the Bancroft Region and around the world. Specimens, Books, collecting equipment, healing crystals. etc.
Mineral / educational collecting trips available.

Jewellery
Precious and semi-precious gemstone jewellery from Canada and abroad.
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Visit us in 2009 around the Province!
- March 07 & 08, 2009
- Kawartha Rock & Fossil Show Norwood, ON
Tel.: (705) 639-1766, (705) 639-2406
E-mail: mark.stanley@sympatico.ca - April 04 & 05, 2009
- Brantford Lapidary and Mineral Society Inc.
April, 2nd weekend
Paris Fair Grounds
139 Silver Street
Paris, ON
Tel.: (905) 628-6298 - April 27 & 29, 2009
Toronto Gem & Mineral Show
April, 4th weekend
Oriole Community Centre
2975 Don Mills West
North York, ON
Tel.: (416) 830-6621
Fax: (416) 989-0321
- July 26, 2009
Mineral Capital Gem & Mineral Show
July, last Saturday
Bancroft Legion Hall
Bancroft, ON
Tel.: (613) 332-8274
- July 30 – August 02, 2009
Rockhound Gemboree
Bancroft & District Chamber of Commerce
July-August, Civic Holiday weekend
Bancroft Arena (North Hastings Community Centre)
Bancroft, ON
Tel.: (613) 332-1513
Web site: http://www.bancroftdistrict.com
Scarborough Gem and Mineral Show
- September 19 & 20, 2009
Scarborough Rockhound Gemboree
For more information about the GMCS, email us at scarbgemclub@lycos.com or snail mail to
10 Chichester Place, Apt B1, Scarborough, ON, M1T 1G5
Web site: http://www.scarbgemclub.ca/
- October 17 & 18, 2009
- Kingston Lapidary and Mineral Club's Annual Gem & Mineral Show
- Dates: October 17 & 18, 2009
- Hours: 10-6 Saturday, 10-5 Sunday
- Location: Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, 53 Yonge Street, Kingston, ON
- Admission: $3 per person and children under 12 are free
- Nov. 21 & 22, 2009
London Gem and Mineral Show
DEMONSTRATIONS & EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS
Lapidary Faceting Beading Jewellery Making
Fossils & Minerals of Ontario Soapstone Carving
Fossil Preparation Fluorescent Minerals Meteorites
Web site: http://www.gemandmineral.ca/