File:20150708 - 13 - Wawa, Ont. - Wawa Goose.jpg
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
![File:20150708 - 13 - Wawa, Ont. - Wawa Goose.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/20150708_-_13_-_Wawa%2C_Ont._-_Wawa_Goose.jpg/800px-20150708_-_13_-_Wawa%2C_Ont._-_Wawa_Goose.jpg?20221219034427)
Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 240 pixels | 640 × 480 pixels | 1,024 × 768 pixels | 1,280 × 960 pixels | 1,680 × 1,260 pixels.
Original file (1,680 × 1,260 pixels, file size: 636 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
File information
Structured data
Captions
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Summary
[edit]Description20150708 - 13 - Wawa, Ont. - Wawa Goose.jpg |
English: A view of the Wawa Goose in the eponymous town of Wawa, Ontario, Canada, as seen on a July 2015 morning. Dating to 1960, this is the most famous of a chain of offbeat roadside monuments that have been erected along the Trans-Canada Highway in remote Northern Ontario by local business interests keen on attracting passing motorists to stop off and spend time in their respective towns. More specifically, this 28-foot stainless steel statue of a Canada goose was the brainchild of local dry cleaning shop owner Al Turcott, who was instrumental in the effort to convince government planners to route the Schreiber-Sault Ste. Marie stretch of the highway along the shore of Lake Superior - one of two proposed options - but was dismayed when the highway ultimately detoured around, rather than through, Wawa's downtown. The goose in this photo is the second of three that have stood at the same site, namely the junction of provincial Highways 17 and 101: the first was made of plaster and quickly proved unsuitable to the harsh local climate, leading to its replacement in 1963 with the version seen here. The third and current goose was installed in 2017, two years after this photo was taken. |
Date | |
Source | Own work |
Author | Andre Carrotflower |
Camera location | 47° 58′ 24.28″ N, 84° 46′ 58.63″ W ![]() | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | ![]() |
---|
Licensing
[edit]I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
![w:en:Creative Commons](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/CC_some_rights_reserved.svg/90px-CC_some_rights_reserved.svg.png)
![attribution](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Cc-by_new_white.svg/24px-Cc-by_new_white.svg.png)
![share alike](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Cc-sa_white.svg/24px-Cc-sa_white.svg.png)
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 03:44, 19 December 2022 | ![]() | 1,680 × 1,260 (636 KB) | Andre Carrotflower (talk | contribs) | Uploaded own work with UploadWizard |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Orientation | Normal |
---|---|
Horizontal resolution | 96 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 96 dpi |
Software used | Snapseed 2.22.412829873 |
Y and C positioning | Centered |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Meaning of each component |
|
Supported Flashpix version | 1 |
Color space | sRGB |
Scene capture type | Standard |