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'Little Current' is a community in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located on Manitoulin Island, in the town of Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands.
Little Current is well known as being a site of one of the world's few remaining swing bridges. The bridge, located on Highway 6, crosses the North Channel of Lake Huron to the mainland, where the highway continues northward to Espanola.
Each year the town hosts "Haweater Weekend," a weeklong celebration which takes its name from the Haweaters, the name given to one who is born on Manitoulin Island. The main celebrations take place on the first weekend of August, and include a fireworks display, a video dance, street vendors ( Including the worlds best sausage by The Dogfather), and a parade.
The prominent American sportsman John W. Galbreath (1897-1988), owner of the Pittsburg Pirates Major League Baseball club as well as the Darby Dan Farm Thoroughbred horse racing operation, owned a summer retreat here and named one of his horses after the village. Little Current won the 1974 Preakness and Belmont Stakes and was voted that year's United States Champion 3-Yr-Old Colt.