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3D Wasaga Beach sign at Beach One; a popular landmark for tourists to take photos. Wasaga Beach (or simply Wasaga) is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.Situated along the longest freshwater beach in the world, [4] it is a popular summer tourist destination.
The Nottawasaga River is a river in Simcoe County and Dufferin County in Central Ontario, Canada. [1] It is part of the Great Lakes Basin, and is a tributary of Lake Huron.The river flows from the Orangeville Reservoir in the town of Orangeville, Dufferin County, through the Niagara Escarpment [2] and the Minesing Wetlands, the latter a wetland of international significance (Ramsar Convention ...
Nottawasaga Bay is a sub-bay within Georgian Bay in Southern Ontario, Canada located at the southernmost end of the main bay. [1] The communities located on Nottawasaga Bay are Meaford, The Blue Mountains, Collingwood, Wasaga Beach and Tiny.
The LINX system connects population centres in the area such as Barrie, Orillia, Midland, Penetanguishene, Wasaga Beach, and Collingwood, and acts as an intermediate transit layer between local community bus services and higher-order regional transit, such as GO Transit and Ontario Northland. Planned future routes would connect Alliston with ...
The service has a complement of 95 firefighters operating 15 pieces of fire apparatus from five stations located in Lafontaine, Wyevale, North West Basin, Wyebridge and Woodland Beach. The township falls within the jurisdiction of the Ontario Provincial Police and is policed by members of the Southern Georgian Bay and Huronia West detachments.
Georgian Bay has been known by several names. To the Ojibwe, it is known as "Spirit Lake".To the Huron-Wendat, it is known as Lake Attigouatan. Samuel de Champlain, the first European to explore and map the area in 1615–1616, called it "La Mer douce" (the sweet/calm/fresh sea), which was a reference to the bay's freshwater. [1]
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In 1980 or 1981, Highway 92 was extended through Wasaga Beach to Highway 26 via River Road West and Mosley Street after the Schoonertown Bridge over the Nottawasaga River was completed. Highway 27 was transferred to Simcoe County on April 1, 1997, temporarily resulting in Highway 92 ending at a county road.