Tag: Gananoque

Gananoque ( /ˌɡænəˈnɒkweɪ/ GAN-ə-NOK-way) is a town in Leeds and Grenville United Counties, Ontario, Canada. The town had a population of 5,194 year-round residents in the Canada 2011 Census, as well as summer residents sometimes referred to as “Islanders” because of the Thousand Islands in the Saint Lawrence River, Gananoque’s most important tourist attraction.
The Gananoque River flows through the town, and the St. Lawrence River is the southern boundary of the town. The local industry is an ECG electrode manufacturer, Covidien.
The town’s name is an aboriginal name which means “town on two rivers”. The town’s name rhymes with the placename Cataraqui, which appears in the Cataraqui River, the Little Cataraqui Creek, and the Cataraqui Cemetery in nearby Kingston, Ontario. One way to remember its pronunciation is “The right way, the wrong way, and the Gananoque”. In Eastern Ontario speech, the town name is often abbreviated to Gan (rhymes with can), though it is rarely written that…