| A couple of years ago I passed by Wawa in Northern
Ontario on my way to Thunder Bay. It is always interesting to see
what a town will do to get itself noticed.
Wawa is known for its big goose statue right on the side of the
TransCanada highway. When I got back home to Ottawa sometime later
I compared a photograph of the goose statue to an older postcard photo
from Wawa. To my surprise the goose today is not the goose of
yesteryear.
I consulted one of my favourite web sites called Big Things in Canada
<http://www.bigthings.ca>
and found out the story of the Dueling Geese.
The current goose is the second goose built for Wawa. It
replace the first goose, which had been first erected in 1960, in 1963
because the first goose, made of wire and plaster could not stand the
harsh winters of Northern Ontario.
The old goose was put into storage for many years and almost
forgotten until it was "rescued " and placed in front of Fort
Friendly. The original goose could talk. If you pressed a button
on the stand it would tell you its history.
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| Original Wawa Goose |
Current Wawa Goose |
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