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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 .
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 ...
South Bruce Peninsula is a town at the base of the Bruce Peninsula of Ontario, Canada, in Bruce County between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. It was formed on January 1, 1999, when the town of Wiarton, the village of Hepworth, and the townships of Albemarle and Amabel were amalgamated. The new municipality was created to provide necessary ...
Wiarton Hospital (previously the Bruce Peninsula and District Red Cross Memorial Hospital) is 22-bed rural hospital in Wiarton, Ontario that was opened by the Canadian Red Cross in 1949. The hospital replaced the Wiarton Red Cross Outpost. The original structure was replaced in 1994, and is currently operated by Bright Shores Health System.
The Wiarton District High School was a high school in Wiarton, Ontario, which was operated from 1892 to 2006. It was replaced with Peninsula Shores District School beginning in the 2006–07 school year. [1] [2] Among the high school's graduates of note, is Lenore Keeshig-Tobias. [3]
Whicher served as mayor of Wiarton, Ontario from 1953 until 1955 when he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Bruce. In 1958, he was a candidate for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party , but received only 39 votes and dropped off after the first ballot at the party's ...
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.
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.