Wawa Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
municipality in Ontario, Canada
About Wawa
Wawa, named for an Ojibway word meaning “Wild Goose”, served as a French fur trade post from 1725 and as a mining town since a gold rush in 1896. Iron ore (hematite) was found in 1897; the last of the mines closed a century later. Forestry was also once a major local industry, but is in decline in the Wawa, Dubreuilville and White River region as Weyerhauser closed its oriented strandboard mill in 2007. The local population, close to 6,000 at its 1990s peak, has dropped by half in about twenty years; portions of the town and highway were damaged by a flood in 2012. The last Ontario section of theTrans-Canada Highway, 250 km (150 miles) fromSault Ste. Marieto Wawa, was completed in 1960. As the new highway bypassed downtown Wawa by a mile, a 28-foot-tall Canada Goose was constructed at the
Top Attractions in Wawa
Explore the best things to see and do in Wawa:
- ★Lion’s Waterfront Park
- ★Michipicoten Golf Club
- ★Naturally Superior Adventures and Rock Island Lodge B&B
- ★The Wawa Goose
- ★Voyageur hiking trail
- ★Wawa Winter Carnival
Where to Stay in Wawa
- 🏨Algoma Motel
- 🏨Best Northern Motel & Restaurant
- 🏨Big Bird Inn
- 🏨Wawa Motor Inn
Wawa Travel Guide Sections
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