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Wolfe Island has a Canada Post office and telephone exchange (+1-613-385-). Wolfe Island can be accessed by ferry from Canada and the United States. The ferry from Kingston (Wolfe Islander III) is operated by the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) and is free of charge. This ferry operates from two locations: the Summer Dock located in Marysville ...
Significant monuments to Wolfe in Canada exist on the Plains of Abraham where he fell, and near Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Ontario Governor John Graves Simcoe named Wolfe Island, an island in Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River off the coast of Kingston (near the Royal Military College of Canada) in Wolfe's honour in 1792. On 13 September ...
Wolfe Island Wind Farm. Frontenac Islands is a township located in Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada, that encompasses a number of islands at the beginning of the Saint Lawrence River near the outlet of Lake Ontario, including: Arabella, Bayfield, Black Ant, Garden, Goose, Hickory, Horseshoe, Howe, Wolfe, and Simcoe.
Wolfe Islander II was a ferry that served between Kingston, Ontario and Wolfe Island, Canada, between 1946 and 1975, when she was replaced by the Wolfe Islander III. Originally named Ottawa Maybrook , she was built in Collingwood, Ontario to be included in an economic aid package to China in 1946.
Wolfe Island may refer to: Wolfe Island (Ontario) , in Lake Ontario, near Kingston, Ontario, Canada Wolfe Island (Nova Scotia) , in the Atlantic Ocean near Nova Scotia , Canada
Wolfe Islander III is the ferry currently serving between Kingston, Ontario and Wolfe Island. She can hold approximately 55 cars, and is end-loading. The length of the car deck is 61 metres (200 feet). The vehicle height restriction is 4.4 m (14 feet, 5 inches). As it is the only public access to Wolfe Island, the vessel operates as a free ferry.
Highway 96 was the second King's Highway on Wolfe Island, Highway 95 having been established the previous year. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The route remained generally unchanged, except for the addition of gentler curves, until its decommissioning on January 1, 1998. [ 2 ]
The Marysburgh Vortex is an area of eastern Lake Ontario with a history of shipwrecks during the age of sail and steam which has encouraged legends, superstitions and comparisons to the Bermuda Triangle. The name describes an area whose three corners are Wolfe Island, Mexico Bay near Oswego, New York, and Point Petre in Prince Edward County ...