Pitts Ferry is a community that is part of Kingston

Kingston, Ontario

Kingston, Ontario is a Canadian city located in Eastern Ontario where the St. Lawrence River flows out of Lake Ontario. Originally a First Nations settlement called "Katarowki," , growing European exploration in the 17th Century made it an important trading post...

, Frontenac County

Frontenac County, Ontario

Frontenac County, as defined by Statistics Canada, is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario. The City of Kingston is included in the census division, but is politically separated from the County of Frontenac. It has a land...

, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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Geography

Pitts Ferry is on the east side of Kingston on the Bateau Channel of the Saint Lawrence River

Saint Lawrence River

The Saint Lawrence is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin...

, on north shore of the river. The north shore of Howe Island

Howe Island

Howe Island is an island located in the St. Lawrence River west of Kingston in Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Thousand Islands chain...

 lies across on the south side of the channel. The town crossroads at the intersection of Highway 2

Highway 2 (Ontario)

King's Highway 2, usually referred to simply as Highway 2 is a provincially maintained highway in Ontario. Once the primary east–west route across the southern end of the province, Highway 2 became mostly redundant in the 1960s following the completion of Highway 401, which more or less...

 and Joyceville Road / Howe Island Ferry Road, and the location given for the community in the Atlas of Canada

Atlas of Canada

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, is at an elevation of 87 metres (285 ft), slightly above the 74 metres (243 ft) level of the St. Lawrence.

Politics

Pitts Ferry is in the federal and provincial riding of Kingston and the Islands

Kingston and the Islands

Kingston and the Islands is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968....

, represented federally by MP Peter Milliken

Peter Milliken

Peter Andrew Stewart Milliken, UE is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 until his retirement in 2011 and served as Speaker of the House for 10 years beginning in 2001. Milliken represented the Ontario riding of Kingston and the Islands as a...

 (Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

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; last contested 2008) and provincially by MPP John Gerretsen

John Gerretsen

John Philip Gerretsen is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, and a Minister in the Cabinet of Premier Dalton McGuinty.-Early life:...

 (Liberal

Ontario Liberal Party

The Ontario Liberal Party is a provincial political party in the province of Ontario, Canada. It has formed the Government of Ontario since the provincial election of 2003. The party is ideologically aligned with the Liberal Party of Canada but the two parties are organizationally independent and...

; last contested 2007). Municipally, it is in City of Kingston Electoral District 12 - Pittsburgh District and is represented by councillor Leonore Foster (last contested 2006) and by Mayor Harvey Rosen

Harvey Rosen

Harvey Rosen was the mayor of the city of Kingston, Ontario, Canada from 2003 to 2010.Rosen was born in Kingston and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from York University in Toronto, and a Bachelor of Law degree from Queen's University in Kingston. He was called to the Bar in 1977...

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Transportation

Highway 2 runs east-west through the community leading to the town centre of Kingston to the west and to Gananoque

Gananoque, Ontario

Gananoque is a town in Leeds and Grenville County, Ontario, Canada. The town had a population of 5,287 year-round residents in the Canada 2006 Census, as well as summer residents sometimes referred to as "Islanders" because of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River, Gananoque's most...

 to the east. Joyceville Road and Howe Island Ferry Road run north-south. Joyceville Road leads from the town crossroads via the community of Kilbirnie to an interchange on Highway 401

Highway 401 (Ontario)

King's Highway 401, also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway and colloquially as the four-oh-one, is a 400-Series Highway in the Canadian province of Ontario stretching from Windsor to the Quebec border...

 and further to Joyceville

Joyceville, Ontario

Joyceville is a community in Ontario, located within the rural part of Kingston....

. Howe Island Ferry Road leads south from the crossroads to the ferry docks to Howe Island, one of two ferries to that island.