Squirrels Pub
Cold drinks. Loud opinions. Familiar faces.
Squirrels Pub is the warm, noisy heart of nightlife in fictional Ashby Lake, Ontario. Locals come for trivia, hockey, Paint n’ Sip Sundays, cold drinks and the comforting certainty that someone they know is already at the bar.
Where Ashby Lake Comes to Unwind
Squirrels Pub is the warm, noisy heart of nightlife in fictional Ashby Lake, Ontario. The wood is dark, the lights are low, and someone you know is almost certainly already at the bar. Locals gather here for trivia, hockey, drinks, teasing and the kind of conversations that change everything.
It is less a place to make an entrance than a place to be noticed the second you walk in.
A Night at Squirrels
Trivia Night
Teams arrive confident. They leave debating one answer for the next three days.
Hockey Night
After the final buzzer, the game continues here—only now everyone is the coach.
Any Other Night
Busy tables, raised glasses and enough local history to keep every conversation interesting.
Paint n’ Sip Sundays
A little paint, a favourite drink and absolutely no requirement that the finished masterpiece resemble the example.
Squirrels Pub in the Ashby Lake Stories
Squirrels Pub is more than a backdrop. It is where Ashby Lake’s overlapping lives become visible: friends meet after work, hockey fans replay every questionable call, and people who thought they were keeping something private discover that small towns have excellent radar. The pub’s easy familiarity makes it a natural crossroads for recurring characters and a perfect place for conversations that would feel very different anywhere else.
Readers may recognize Squirrels from Lies, Cleavage and Quantum Theory, where the pub becomes part of Megan’s Ashby Lake orbit. But the fun of the town is that locations keep living between books. As a result, Squirrels Pub gathers new memories every time another couple walks through the door.
Beyond the novels, Squirrels Pub helps make Ashby Lake feel like a town rather than a collection of separate love stories. On one night, friends may be defending an outrageous trivia answer. On another, hockey fans fill the room after the game. Meanwhile, Paint n’ Sip Sundays give the town a softer sort of chaos, complete with drinks, easels and masterpieces of highly variable quality.
The Unofficial Living Room of Ashby Lake
Squirrels is where friendships are tested by trivia, romances become town knowledge, and post-game celebrations last longer than planned. It is welcoming, a little rowdy and impossible to visit anonymously—which makes it perfectly Ashby Lake.