From the Barrie Advance: I played tourist last weekend in Niagara Falls and was struck by the fact that other parts of Ontario that try to attract tourists and their dollars must be painfully aware that nature blessed Niagara with a must-see drawing card. It has to be tough to beat what is probably the…
From Niagara This Week: The provincial government is betting on Niagara Falls as a good place to invest the public’s money because of its increasing potential to continually evolve as an international tourism destination. Premier Dalton McGuinty was in the Niagara Falls Saturday for a photo-op with municipal, regional and provincial politicians highlighting the Liberal’s…
From the Buffalo News: Niagara Falls is a healing place for Sharon and David Gauthe. The Louisiana couple volunteered nearly two years of their time, helping with relief and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. Now they’re on a different kind of R & R. The Gauthes were offered an all-expenses paid vacation to anywhere in…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Frustrated by the spread of billboard advertising, Niagara Falls council got tough with Pattison Outdoor Advertising for putting up two signs they say exceeded their height limit only to turn around and ask for minor variances to make them legal.
From the Niagara Falls Review: It might be next year before work starts on a $90-million aquarium next to the Great Wolf Lodge. But the owners could still pull the plug. Ripley Entertainment, which opened Canada’s first Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls last April, is still undecided on its proposal to swim with the…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Falls Public Library and the Lundy’s Lane Historical Society invite the public to attend an illustrated talk by author Bob Cowan about Sir Harry Oakes. This free presentation will be part of the society’s meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Victoria Avenue branch. Bob Cowan’s book, “Sir…
From the Niagara Falls Review: He called himself Professor J.F. Jenkins – The Canadian Blondin, and during the summer of 1869 it was widely advertised that on Aug. 25, he would cross the Niagara River Gorge on a tightrope using a velocipede (an early form of the bicycle). When the day arrived, it was clear…
Regular visitor SaraAB87 (the one who is so interested in the games at the Skylon Tower) visited the Skylon Tower Fun Centre this week and emailed me the following: I visited the Skylon Tower on Tuesday this week. There was quite a bit of construction going on, they had orange banners up where most of…
This isn’t specifically Niagara Falls related, but I figured I’d include it in case there is anyone interested. American Heritage has an article that talks about the history of restaurants at the top of towers: Around 1960 John Graham, Jr., a Seattle architect best known for large shopping centers, proposed a tower with a restaurant…
A couple of weeks ago I posted a picture of the old Circus World building on Victoria Avenue and reported that a new store was open. Regular visitor Fallsview let us know a few days later that a sign was up and it was called eklectibles. Fallsview was right, it does look pretty bad on…