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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 10:35, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Little Current, Ontario

Little Current
Little Current
  • ... that although Little Current (pictured) was founded by the Anishinaabe, they were displaced by white settlers who took over their profitable trade?
  • Source: Ref #6 (The Manitoulin Expositor: "Little Current ... was an active Anishinaabe settlement in the early 19th century. ... In 1867 its original Anishinaabe fishermen and wood suppliers were being relocated to the new Sucker Creek Reserve. Non-Native traders quickly took over the lucrative steamboat trade.")
Converted from a redirect by P199 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 39 past nominations.

P 1 9 9   17:14, 26 February 2025 (UTC).

  • article converted from redirect within the past week, well-sourced, interesting enough hook, QPQ checks out. My one slight concern is that the hook seems grammatically unwieldy; as of right now, it would seem to me that the "they" refers to Little Current rather than the Anishinaabe. I would think that this would flow better: