Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A third ferry runs seasonally to join Wolfe Island to Simcoe Island. Wolfe Island is the site of most Kingston radio transmitters; CKWS TV and radio, CKLC, CIKR and CFRC transmit from the island. It is the site of the Wolfe Island Wind Project, a 197.8 MW wind farm consisting of 86 wind turbines, [8] which has been in operation since 2009. [9]
A former farm dominated by a two-storey Italianate-style stone building; oldest known state-supported poorhouse or almshouse in Canada, now serving as the county museum and archives Whitefish Island [174] [175] 300 BCE (ca.) (first Aboriginal encampments) 1981 Sault Ste. Marie
This list of museums in Ontario, Canada contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Week before October 9 - am unrated small tornado touched down on Wolfe Island, Ontario, causing considerable damage. The tornado shifted several farm structures and demolished at least one. [505] 1909. April 6 - an unrated tornado struck London, Ontario, causing some minor damage to a chimney. Half a dozen children were injured from a falling ...
John Alfred (Jack) Irvine (26 January 1912 – 20 July 1996) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a merchant by career. Irvine ran Irvine Appliances. [6] Irvine was born at Wolfe Island, Ontario. He married Doris Seeley in 1937, and moved to Lambeth, London, Ontario in 1950. [5]
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.
Simcoe Island is a small island approximately six kilometres (3.7 mi) long, and one point five kilometres (0.93 mi) across at its widest point, in Lake Ontario, just off Wolfe Island, close to Kingston, Ontario, and Amherst Island. The island is almost completely farmland and can be reached by ferry from Wolfe Island.
Garden Island is an island in the municipality of Frontenac Islands, Frontenac County, in Eastern Ontario, Canada. [1] [2] [3] Part of the Thousand Islands, it is located in the Saint Lawrence River, approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of Kingston, northwest of Wolfe Island, [1] [2] [3] and is 30.75 hectares (76.0 acres) in size.