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A monument to Wiarton Willie in Bluewater Park. Wiarton Willie is the name given to a Canadian groundhog who lives in the community of Wiarton in Bruce County, Ontario. Every February 2, on Groundhog Day, Willie takes part in the local Wiarton Willie Festival. His role is to predict whether there will be an early spring. Although the original ...
Wiarton (/ ˈ w aɪər t ən /) is a community in the town of South Bruce Peninsula, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the western end of Colpoys Bay, an inlet off Georgian Bay , on the Bruce Peninsula .
SS Jane Miller was a cargo ship that sank with the loss of 28 lives near Wiarton, Ontario on Georgian Bay on November 25, 1881. Her wreck was discovered in 2017 resting upright in over 100 feet (30 m) of water.
Jericho, Ontario January 25, 1893 Beat to death with a club, an axe, and a hoe by a freedman wanted for relations with a girl and his two brothers [15] Constable William Lindsay Comber Police Comber, Ontario May 3, 1894 Killed by a drunken disgruntled farmer by a shot to the abdomen Constable Alexander Wright Brockville Police Service
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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Their only son was born in 1874, named Malcolm (Junior). Alexander McNeill purchased 300 acres north of Wiarton and called it, The Corran (which means land running into the sea - named after his birthplace in Ireland). In 1882 the extension of the rail service came to Wiarton and construction of the 17 room manor began.
Ottawa, Ontario: 6: 35: Via Rail train 51 struck an OC Transpo double-decker bus en route from Ottawa to Toronto at a level crossing. 2014 Nairn derailment: April 2014: near Nairn Centre, Ontario: 0: 0: A Huron Central Railway freight train derailed and leaked 25,000 litres (6,600 US gal) of diesel fuel into a local creek and wetland. [63 ...