Garden Island (Ontario)

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Coordinates: 44°12′04″N 76°27′56″W / 44.200987°N 76.465524°W / 44.200987; -76.465524 Garden Island is located in Lake Ontario, approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of Kingston, north west of Wolfe Island, and is approximately 65 acres (263,000 m²) in size.

From the mid-1830s till around 1914, Delino Dexter Calvin and, later, his son operated a shipping and lumber operation based on the island. There was small industry consisting of timber transported to the island on ships and then assembled into large rafts that were floated down the Saint Lawrence River to Quebec City for transport to Britain. Now somewhat of a ghost town exists of the few remnants of the original village.

The history of the former shipyard is the subject of an exhibit at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston.

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Garden Island, and links.
Garden Island shown off the North side of Wolfe Island in this 19th-century map:

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