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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 ...
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.
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. [citation needed]
Possibly the oldest, privately owned, wooden house in Canada. Some additions to house up to the 20th century. Adams-Ritchie House: 1686 [95] 1712 [94] Annapolis Royal: Possibly the oldest, unaltered privately owned, wooden building in Canada. All additions and alterations were removed to reveal the original building.
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 ...
The Thousand Islands archipelago is at the outlet of Lake Ontario at the head of the Saint Lawrence River.The region is bisected by the Canada–United States border and covers portions of Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties in the U.S. state of New York, in addition to parts of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville and Frontenac County in the Canadian province of Ontario.
Ermatinger Old Stone House. The Ermatinger Old Stone House is the original building on the site, and was constructed between 1814 and 1823. [4] It is considered one of the oldest surviving houses in Northern Ontario. [5] It was built by Charles Oakes Ermatinger, a former North West Company fur trader who lived in the home with his wife and ...