From the Niagara Falls Review:
Mayor Ted Salci recalled a few childhood memories of his neighbourhood as he peered down at an ancient, yellowed map of Elgin, which came to be Niagara Falls.
“We lived right here,” said Salci, running his finger over the crumbling tissue dated 1847. “I grew up in a hotel and spent the first 20 years of my life here.”
The map, now protected by plastic, was originally used by William Hamilton Merritt, president of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company.
Found among the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission archives, it was one of two maps donated Monday to Brock University’s special collection section.
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