Goat Island is a small

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in the

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, located in the town of

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in the

Manitoulin District Manitoulin District is a district in Northeastern Ontario within the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1888 from part of the Algoma District. The district seat is in Gore Bay. It comprises Manitoulin Island primarily, as well as a ...

Transportation

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passes through the island, crossing from

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via the

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. Built in 1913 as a railway bridge, it has carried road traffic since 1946. At the other end of the island, a fixed bridge carries the highway to

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. The only other road on the island, Goat Island Road, is a service road that circles around the west end of the island. Goat Island Road has cul de sac that ends on the northwest corner of the island and separate by a narrow section of the North Channel from the a dirt trail leading off from Highway 6 on Great La Cloche Island. The former Highway 6 cross was cut off after the roadway was re-aligned to the east end of the island in 1998.

Communities

The only community located on the island is

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. A small tank farm is used by E. B. Eddy to store chemicals for their

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plant and Goat Island Range is a golf driving range is the only business of the island. There are two transformer stations found off Goat Island Road and Highway 6.

References

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