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5 unusual facts about Picton


4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards

Four of these troops (in Kingston, Napanee, Loughborough and Picton) were united under a regimental headquarters in 1875, becoming the 4th Provisional Regiment of Cavalry.

Cameron Ansell

Cameron Ansell (born November 28, 1992 in Picton, Ontario) is a Canadian voice actor, best known for voicing Arthur in the television series of the same name, Cheng in Skyland, and Prince Lumen in Spider Riders.

Dorothy Cottrell

Born in Picton she contracted infantile paralysis as a child and spent the rest of her life in a wheelchair.

Picton, New Zealand

The two main shipping companies operating this route are the Interislander and Strait Shipping, with both offering Roll-on/roll-off capabilities for cars and trucks, and for the Interislander sometimes trains.

Velvet Glove

In 1952 ground-launched testing started at the Picton Range, a small test site set up outside Picton, Ontario, near the RCAF base at Trenton, Ontario.


Buxton, New South Wales

The Loop Line was closed in 1978 due to lack of traffic, and road-bridge failure between Colo Vale and Braemar, but the section from Picton to Buxton was retained as a Heritage railway, and is still operated by the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum.

Canadian Armed Forces Tattoo 1967

After several years of planning, rehearsals for the show commenced in late February of 1967 at Camp Picton (later CFB Picton) in Ontario.

Cesar Picton

Cesar Picton (c. 1755 Senegal? – 1836 Thames Ditton, Surrey) was enslaved in Africa by the time he was about six years old.

CJPE-FM

CJPE-FM, to be nicknamed 99.3 County FM, is a new English-language community radio station which will broadcast at 99.3 MHz/FM in Picton, located in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.

Division of Hume

It extends from Cowra in the north to Wee Jasper in the south and parts of the Southern Highlands from Picton and Wilton in the east to Young and Cootamundra in the west.

Hercules Robert Pakenham

He was promoted to a majority in the 7th West India regiment 30 Aug. 1810, remained with the Peninsular army, and was assistant adjutant-general of Picton's division up to the fall of Badajos, where he was severely wounded and received the Gold Cross for Busaco, Fuentes d'Onoro and Ciudad Rodrigo, and Badajos).

Illawarra

The Illawarra region is linked to Sydney by several passes and a motorway (Southern Freeway) and electric railway (see South Coast railway line); to the west by the Illawarra Highway and Picton Road; and to the south by the Princes Highway.

James Allanson Picton

After his retirement, Picton built Caerlyr Hall at Penmaenmawr, North Wales in about 1896 (the name Caerlyr means City of Leicester in Welsh).

Kaikoura

Freight trains also pass through the town, mainly carrying freight between the marshalling yards at Middleton in Christchurch and the Interislander rail ferries at Picton.

Letitia Youmans

When Letitia accepted a position at Rev. Daniel McMullen's Picton Ladies' Academy, she travelled there by steamer October, 1849, during what she called "that inclement season."

Main North Line, New Zealand

Later that year, the national government passed the Picton Railway Act in October, approving a line from Picton to the Wairau River under the auspices of the Marlborough Provincial Council.

MS Mikhail Lermontov

It is popular with Scuba divers and the site is served by local dive shops in Picton and Kaikoura.

MS Stena Alegra

On 27 November 2013, it was announced that she has been chartered by Interislander in New Zealand to operate on the WellingtonPicton route for six months.

Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett

He was married on July 26, 1860, to Mary Picton, daughter of Edwin Stevens.

New Zealand DSC class locomotive

For a time in 1962, DSC 402 was dispatched to Picton to shunt the NZR road/rail ferry MV Aramoana until newly constructed Addington DSC 418 arrived to take over, allowing 402 to return north.

Prince Edward County Board of Education

The district served ten municipalities, including the townships of Ameliasburgh, Athol, Hallowell, Hillier, North Marysburgh, Sophiasburg, and South Marysburgh, the villages of Bloomfield and Wellington, and Picton town.

Reema Abdo

There the resident of Picton, Ontario won the bronze medal in the 4x100m Medley Relay, alongside Anne Ottenbrite, Michelle MacPherson, and Pamela Rai.

Simon Austin

Austin was a founding member of Frente! in Melbourne in 1989 with Angie Hart on vocals, Tim O'Connor on bass guitar and Mark Picton on drums.

SS Midland City

Assembled by the Gildersleeves (a shipbuilding family and political dynasty) and completed August 1871, Maud was originally intended to provide passenger and cargo service between Picton and Belleville, Ontario under the command of Captain W. Swales.

SS Picton

On Saturday, the Admiralty instructed the Furness Withy people to remove Picton from the harbour and beach her in the Eastern Passage.

The Ottawa School of Speech and Drama

In August 2005, OSSD moved into a new facility at 294 Picton Ave. in the village of Westboro.


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