Amazing Race celebrity Jon Montgomery in town agrees to photo

Tracey Frena and her family are big fans of the CTV Television program Amazing Race Canada. 

So imagine how excited she was when her husband Mike, who runs Castlerock Landscape and Maintenance, called to tell her Friday that he was sure he saw host Jon Montgomery and a camera crew setting up to shoot a segment for the show near the Niagara-
on-the-Lake Golf Club. 

Frena and her daughter Rachel jumped in the car and headed down to Front Street to see if they could catch some of the action. 

“We sat there near the second tee and waited and waited,” says Frena, “and we were just about to give up when all of a sudden we saw some camera people running and running. That’s when we took a bunch of pictures.”

The pair then drove through town and spotted more camera operators near the Starbucks outlet on Queen Street. She and Rachel were scheduled to help decorate smile cookies at Tim Hortons, so they went and did that, then returned to the golf course at around 4:30 p.m. 

“We were walking up the path to Fort Mississauga,” she explains, “and it looked like they were done filming. Then I saw this guy who looked a lot like Jon. We asked if he would take a picture with us and he was so nice to us.”

It was a big thrill for the pair, who have often discussed how much fun it would be to compete on the show. 

The NOTL Local reached out to Insight Productions, the company that produces Amazing Race Canada, to find out when the episode shot in NOTL would be aired, but they are keeping things under wraps until the new season begins this summer.