More U.S. visitors come to Ontario

I’ve said this a couple of times this summer, but I didn’t have any hard numbers to back me up… From the Niagara Falls Review: The latest figures from Ontario’s Ministry of Tourism show a modest increase in American visitation to Ontario during June compared to a year earlier when stricter border-crossing regulations came into…

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Competition watered down by steady rain

From the Niagara Falls Review: Oakville teen Jonathan Cosentino was one of the few skateboarders who got to show off his tricks at what was billed as Canada’s largest skateboarding competition in Niagara Falls over the weekend. Steady rain Saturday turned the “Take the Cake” contest into a soggy affair and forced a competition among…

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Aero Car honoured

From the Niagara Falls Review: The engineering feat of building a cable car over the Niagara River whirlpool was recognized Thursday when the Whirlpool Aero Car was designated an International Historic Civil Engineering Work… The ride was built between 1914 and 1916 and was originally known as the Spanish Aero Car, paying tribute to the…

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Rare Film Of 1938 Niagara Falls Bridge Collapse

From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: Jim Grimaldi, a West Seneca, NY based filmmaker and television producer, also operates a business where he’ll take your old home movies and convert them to a modern format. Recently, the family of a long ago local dentist named Harold Sipple approached him with a box of 8mm films,…

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