From the Globe and Mail: Oscar Wilde, Richard Nixon, Pierre Trudeau, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Shirley Temple, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Charles Blondin, Wild Bill Hickok, Laura Secord, H.G. Wells, Charles Dickens, Helen Keller, Sir Harry Oakes, Jimmy Stewart, Princess Diana … Bit characters all – in a story in which the main character has…
From ABC News: Tourists visiting Niagara Falls will soon have a new way to see the sites. The new “Discover Niagara” shuttle service will offer transportation from Niagara Falls State Park to 14 destination sites along the 14-mile route to Old Fort Niagara, located where the Niagara River empties in Lake Ontario. The Discover Niagara…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Falls land where a $1-billion development is proposed to be built could be used as a provincial pilot project for biodiversity offsetting. The 486 acres of property near Thundering Waters Golf Club includes 13 acres of provincially-significant wetlands that must be addressed before the massive development can proceed….
At the same store where I saw the old Niagara Falls panorama from 1913, I saw this old map. They had a small area of the larger map that was specifically for the Niagara area. It’s interesting to see that there were traffic circles on the QEW at that point. What would become Highway 420…
From the Niagara Falls Review: All signs point to a perfect summer tourism season in Niagara Falls. Redeveloped and new attractions, a favourable U.S. currency exchange and weather forecasts, and the first good indicator: One of the best Victoria Day long weekends in recent memory. “I heard at least one person say that he felt…
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