Haweater

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Haweater is a nickname given to a person born on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. A honorary haweater is someone who has lived on Manitoulin Island, but was not born there. It surfaces in many areas of modern life with the August Civic Holiday Weekend, known as Haweater Weekend that is mainly celebrated in Little Current, also with Haweater dollars, Hawberry Ice Cream and Jams etc. Originally it was reported that early settlers avoided scurvy by eating hawberries and thus got their vitamin C intake. Haweater dollars are currency that is distributed annually with some of the coins being quite sought after, the most of which is the 1974 Chi Cheemaun dollar.