Template:Did you know nominations/Point Abino Light Tower


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:56, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

Point Abino Light Tower

 * ... that American businessmen prevented the Canadian government from using a road in the province of Ontario to build the Point Abino Light Tower (pictured), forcing it to use the shore? The Lake Erie Shore: Ontario's Forgotten South Coast, page 149-150: "...and sold the entire property to a group of twenty-one wealthy Buffalo businessmen who formed the Point Abino Association" and "...the federal government signed an agreement with the Point Abino Association that the lighthouse would remain accessible by water only" and "...not along the private road, but along the more difficult west shore..."
 * Reviewed: Chenail Island (see my DYK tracker)

Moved to mainspace by Mindmatrix (talk). Self-nominated at 20:33, 3 February 2017 (UTC).


 * ALT1: ...that the Point Abino Light Tower (pictured) on Lake Erie derives its name from a Jesuit missionary, who settled the point in a log cabin atop a dune? The Lake Erie Shore: Ontario's Forgotten South Coast, page 148: "...the sole occupant had been Father Claude Aveneau, a Jesuit missionary..." and "...atop one the large dunes that form the backbone of the point, he built a log cabin"; and page 149: "By then the name had become a corruption of Father Aveneau's name and was known more simply as Point 'Abino'"

- Length, Date, Cite, QPQ, and Earwigs all checkout. The image is freely licensed and appears to have been taken by a wikimedian. The cite for the first hook isn't quite as direct as I'd like to so I am only approving ALT1. Mifter (talk) 23:24, 18 February 2017 (UTC)