From the Toronto Star: Once upon a time, this tourist destination meant waterfalls and honeymooners. Then they added the arcade-rich world of Clifton Hill for family entertainment. Then along came the casinos, bringing in slick nightlife and high rollers of every description. But the one thing the city has lacked – until this summer –…
From the Toronto Star: You would think, judging by our screams, that my daughter and I are hurtling over the Horseshoe Falls in a barrel. Really, we’re jammed into adjoining inner tubes, shooting down a big plastic pipe then swirling around in what looks like a giant blue and yellow toilet bowl. We’re finally “flushed”…
From the Toronto Star: [Chris] Kennedy is… a great ambassador for Niagara Falls. He not only tells it as it is, but how it used to be before Niagara Falls hit the jackpot a decade ago thanks to Casino Niagara. “It’s been fantastic – just out of this world,” says Kennedy of the more than…
From the Niagara Falls Review: It was “business as usual” at the city’s two casinos Wednesday, the first day of the province’s smoke-free legislation which made it illegal to smoke in any public building in Ontario – including previously exempted gaming halls. “Attendance seems to be the same,” Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. spokeswoman Teresa…
From the Nassau Guardian: During the seven short years that he lived in The Bahamas, Harry Oakes was to make a great impact on the society. Originally from Maine in the United States, Oakes decided in his youth that he wanted, above all, to be a wealthy man. Educated at Bowdoin College, he worked for…
It looks like the Niagara SkyWheel is getting every closer to opening. There is a large booth that has been setup in the plaza area on Clifton Hill between Tim Hortons and Boston Pizza: The ticket booths at the wheel have also been put into place:
Aero-Data Corporation is a remote sensing consulting firm that offers high quality current and historical aerial photographs, custom aerial photomissions, photointerpretation, mapping, and expert witness testimony. They also turn some of their pictures into 3-D pictures, and they have some samples on their site. One of the sample images is of Niagara Falls. Unfortunately I…
The new TGI Friday’s patio (see here and here) is ready to go, but with all the heat this past week, I haven’t seen anyone out there yet.
From the Niagara Falls Review: Despite what looks like a recent softening in Washington D.C., on the so-called passport requirement, Canadian political and business leaders need to keep pressing for change, says Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader John Tory. Tourism operators in Canada celebrated two weeks ago after the U.S. Senate passed amendments to the Western…
The name of this post may have been a bit misleading. This “new” guide is actually from around 1895 and is online at the Niagara University Library web site: A New Guide To Niagara Falls And Vicinity, Giving A Full And Complete Description of Niagara Falls, Suspension Bridge, Buffalo, Rochester, Ontario Beach, Toronto, Lockport, Tonawanda,…