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Who is Wiarton Willie? Here's how a Toronto Daily Star reporter's journey to Wiarton helped create a decades-long tradition
In southern Ontario, our most famous groundhog is Wiarton Willie. According to the Bruce Peninsula tourism page, this groundhog began predicting the weather in 1957, when a local man named Mac ...
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Wiarton Willie predicts early spring, but Fred, Sam and Lucy the Lobster disagree on Groundhog Day
In 2022, a brown groundhog was named as the next Wiarton Willie, but he was later replaced in 2023 by the current white groundhog. While Punxsutawney Phil is the OG (original groundhog), Canada ...