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🪿 The Wawa Goose

WAWA, ONTARIO

Quick facts: Where: the highway junction at Wawa · Why: a town that refused to be bypassed · Current goose: the third to stand guard

The Wawa Goose might be the most determined roadside attraction in Canada, because she exists for one reason: so that you stop.

When the Trans-Canada link was finished in 1960, it bypassed downtown Wawa. Local merchant Al Turcott helped hatch a plan: build a goose nobody could drive past. It worked so well that the goose became the town’s emblem.

The goose watching the highway today is the third one to stand guard. Towns that refuse to be forgotten tend to win in the end.

Moose Mail verdict: honk if you respect the hustle.

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