Gravenhurst
Gravenhurst is a town of about 12,000 people in the Muskoka region of Ontario. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who became famous in China for battlefield surgery, was born here, and is the town's most famous former citizen.- Type: Town with 12,300 residents
- Description: town in Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Gravenhurst, ON” and “Gravenhurst, Ontario”
- Neighbors: Bracebridge
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gravenhurst Post Office and Bethune Memorial House.
Bethune Memorial House
House
Bethune Memorial House, a National Historic Site of Canada in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada, commemorates the life and achievements of Dr. Norman Bethune.
Gravenhurst
- Categories: lower-tier municipality of Ontario and locality
- Location: Gravenhurst, District Municipality of Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.9174° or 44° 55′ 3″ north
Longitude
-79.3731° or 79° 22′ 23″ west
Population
12,300
Elevation
260 metres (853 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CA GVH
Open location code
87P2WJ8G+XP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Gravenhurst” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جرافنهورست”
- Asturian: “Gravenhurst”
- Atikamekw: “Gravenhurst”
- Catalan: “Gravenhurst”
- Cebuano: “Gravenhurst”
- Chinese: “格雷文赫斯特”
- Danish: “Gravenhurst”
- Dutch: “Gravenhurst”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرافنهورست”
- French: “Gravenhurst”
- German: “Gravenhurst”
- Hebrew: “גרייבנהרסט”
- Indonesian: “Gravenhurst, Ontario”
- Indonesian: “Gravenhurst”
- Japanese: “グレイブンハースト”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gravenhurst i Ontario”
- Persian: “گریونرست، انتاریو”
- Persian: “گریونرست”
- Polish: “Gravenhurst”
- Russian: “Грейвенхёрст”
- Serbian: “Грејвенхерст”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gravenhurst”
- Slovak: “Gravenhurst”
- Slovenian: “Gravenhurst”
- Spanish: “Gravenhurst (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Gravenhurst”
- Swedish: “Gravenhurst, Ontario”
- Swedish: “Gravenhurst”
- Turkish: “Gravenhurst, Ontario”
- Turkish: “Gravenhurst”
- Urdu: “گریون ہرسٹ، اونٹاریو”
- Welsh: “Gravenhurst”
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