From the Niagara Falls Review:
“To make a break in a long Canadian winter, a small party was formed in the garrison of London, Canada West (now Ontario), at the beginning of 1843 to visit the falls at Niagara.” So wrote Sir James Alexander of the 14th Regiment as he introduced an account of a January journey to Niagara 165 years ago.
The little expedition consisted of two ladies, four officers and three servants. Wearing, as Alexander relates, “fur caps and furbreasted coats,” they travelled in three two-horse open sleighs that were well provided with “buffalo, fox and raccoon robes.” With bells ringing on the collars and breast-straps of the horses, the group left London, then a village of 2,600 people, and started out for Niagara Falls.