From Niagara This Week:
Niagara Falls’ first funambulist is getting his due.
Immortalized in miniature crossing Victoria Avenue on a highwire, Blondin will now be recognized with his very own street after city politicians approved the naming of a small north section of Falls Avenue running between John and Bender Streets. Council unanimously endorsed the renaming at its March 27 meeting.
“The avenue’s proximity to the gorge makes it appropriate to name the road after Charles Blondin,” a staff report from the Clerk’s Department said.
I’ve just discovered your blog – great source of information for those who want to visit this wonderful area. I hope you won’t mind an off-topic comment. I was just wondering if the magnolia trees have bloomed in Niagara Falls and have nobody else to ask. I’m planning to come down from Toronto to take some pics of the trees this weekend, as I do every year.
I don’t know about the ones near the Falls, where it’s cooler, but every one I’ve seen in the city has been in bloom for more than a week.
I meant the pink ones from the park close to the falls, this is where I go every year to take pictures. Here in Toronto I haven’t seen them in bloom yet. Shoul I wait one more week maybe?