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Hawkesbury

Hawkesbury is a town along the Ottawa River in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell in Eastern Ontario, Canada.

Hawkesbury
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The place

Hawkesbury is a town along the Ottawa River in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Hawkesbury is the third most bilingual town in Ontario, with about 70% of its inhabitants being fluent in English and French. Franco-Ontarians make up 89% of the population.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hawkesbury

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Long-Sault Bridge

    The Long-Sault Bridge is a bridge connecting Hawkesbury, Ontario and Grenville, Quebec. It crosses the Ottawa River via Chenail Island.

    1.2 km · bridge in Canada · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Hawkesbury

Airports
Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 69 km · Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 89 km · Quebec Jean Lesage (YQB), 280 km
Stations
Hawkesbury (East) Airport, 5 km · Hawkesbury Airport, 3.9 km
  • Montréal → Hawkesbury
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · C$12–16
  • Ottawa → Hawkesbury
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h · C$13–18
  • Quebec → Hawkesbury
    294 km · quickest by road, 5h 33m · C$42–55
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hawkesbury

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hawkesbury. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

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  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

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  5. 05
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

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