Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Garden Island is an island in the municipality of Frontenac Islands, Frontenac County, in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Part of the Thousand Islands, it is located in the St. Lawrence Seaway, approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of Kingston, northwest of Wolfe Island, and is approximately 65 acres (26 ha) in size.From the mid-1830s to around 1914, Delino Dexter Calvin and, later, his son, Hiram Augustus, operated a shipping and lumber operation based on the island. There was small industry consisting of timber transported to the island on ships and then assembled into large rafts that were floated down the Saint Lawrence River to Quebec City for transport to Britain. Now somewhat of a ghost town, few remnants of the original village exist.The history of the former shipyard is the subject of an exhibit at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston."@en }
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- Garden_Island_(Ontario) abstract "Garden Island is an island in the municipality of Frontenac Islands, Frontenac County, in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Part of the Thousand Islands, it is located in the St. Lawrence Seaway, approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of Kingston, northwest of Wolfe Island, and is approximately 65 acres (26 ha) in size.From the mid-1830s to around 1914, Delino Dexter Calvin and, later, his son, Hiram Augustus, operated a shipping and lumber operation based on the island. There was small industry consisting of timber transported to the island on ships and then assembled into large rafts that were floated down the Saint Lawrence River to Quebec City for transport to Britain. Now somewhat of a ghost town, few remnants of the original village exist.The history of the former shipyard is the subject of an exhibit at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston.".
- Q5522264 abstract "Garden Island is an island in the municipality of Frontenac Islands, Frontenac County, in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Part of the Thousand Islands, it is located in the St. Lawrence Seaway, approximately 2 miles (3 km) south of Kingston, northwest of Wolfe Island, and is approximately 65 acres (26 ha) in size.From the mid-1830s to around 1914, Delino Dexter Calvin and, later, his son, Hiram Augustus, operated a shipping and lumber operation based on the island. There was small industry consisting of timber transported to the island on ships and then assembled into large rafts that were floated down the Saint Lawrence River to Quebec City for transport to Britain. Now somewhat of a ghost town, few remnants of the original village exist.The history of the former shipyard is the subject of an exhibit at the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes in Kingston.".