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Wheatley is a community in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, within the municipality of Chatham-Kent. It lies about 12 kilometres (7 mi) east of Leamington. Nearby parks include Two Creeks Conservation Area, which has 15 km of hiking and bicycling paths, Kopegaron Woods Conservation Area, Hillman Marsh Conservation Area and Point Pelee National Park. Rondeau Provincial Park is only a forty-five-minute drive to the east. It also boasts Wheatley Provincial Park, home to the endangered Blue Racer snake, which can only be found in the park as well as the Point Pelee National Park and on Pelee Island. The town has a few beaches, including Camper's Cove Campsite and beach and Holiday Harbour which lies on the former Highway 3. The town's population in 2006 was 2,322.[1] It is now 2,925, an increase of 26% in five years. Wheatley is the primary community of licence for CHWI, a television station more popularly associated with the city of Windsor. Wheatley's sign proclaims it as the "Freshwater Fish Capital of the World" and is home to a large fishing port located on Lake Erie. As such, Wheatley is home to many fisheries owned and operated by local families. Hike Metal Products, a shipbuilding/refitting/fabricating company based at the harbour, is the builder of the Maid of the Mist, the vessel used at Niagara Falls for the tours under the great Canadian waterfall. It also built the 141-foot Copasetic, a research vessel, as well as a ferry for the Toronto Island Airport, to take passengers and vehicles from downtown Toronto to the Toronto Islands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatley,_Ontario en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_... |
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| Author | Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA |
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