User:Floydian/Contributions

Contributions
See Special:Contributions/Floydian for a current list.

Did You Know..?

 * that the shortest numbered route in the city of Kawartha Lakes, Hartley Road, is entirely a causeway crossing the man-made Mitchell Lake?
 * that the Gull River system of reservoirs in Ontario controls the water levels of the Trent-Severn Canal, although they were not originally created for this purpose?
 * that St. Mary's, the first village planned in the Township of Bexley, was never built because the site lay above a bed of limestone?
 * that Coboconk, Ontario (station pictured), was renamed Shedden after the president of the Toronto and Nipissing Railway in 1873, but was changed back to Coboconk seven years later?
 * that Canada's first interchange was a cloverleaf opened in 1937 at the intersection of Highway 10 and The Middle Road?
 * that the Comber Historical Society Museum on Ontario Highway 77 was established in the former Maple Grove schoolhouse, built in 1894?
 * that the old bridge on Highway 61 at the Ontario–Minnesota border, known as The Outlaw, was built by local citizens without approval from the Canadian or American governments?
 * that the Vale of Avoca bridge in Toronto was opened in 1924, replacing an iron bridge from 1888 (both pictured)?
 * that the Mount Pleasant Road extension (pictured under construction in 1948) is considered Toronto's first expressway?
 * that the Hanlon Expressway is named after Felix Hanlon, who helped cut the first tree to inaugurate Guelph, Ontario?

Major Article Contributions

 * Ontario Highway 401 (Complete rewrite to FA)
 * Don Valley Parkway (Complete rewrite to FA)
 * Rumination syndrome (From start-class to GA)

Project Contributions

 * Did about half of the Wikiproject-Albums on Pink Floyd
 * Introduced the WikiProject-Songs (Which along with WikiProject albums, has since been incorporated into the various genre's WikiProjects)
 * Currently coordinating WP:WikiProject Ontario Roads
 * Currently coordinating WP:WikiProject Progressive Rock