Yours Till Niagara Falls

    TravelPod, “The Web’s Original Travel Blog”, has an article (with pictures) about Niagara Falls: The title of this blog is taken from a book I owned as a kid. The heroine of the story wrote letters to her best friend and always ended them with “Yours Till Niagara Falls,” and so I could think of…

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      Canadian Mining Hall of Fame – Sir Harry Oakes

      The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame has a short biography of Sir Harry Oakes (the HO in HOCO). Just as the other posting doesn’t mention his involvement in Niagara Falls, this one doesn’t either. Sir Harry Oakes 1874 – 1943 Adventure, fame and fortune all came the way of Sir Harry Oakes, the self-made prospector…

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        LEDs transform a White Christmas into a Green Christmas

        LEDs Magazine has an article about LED lighting for Christmas displays. It mentioned Niagara Falls and the Winter Festival of Lights many times: This year, I decided to once again take my Christmas dinner repast high above Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada at Watermark, the rooftop restaurant of the Niagara Falls Hilton. For the past 3…

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