As has been mentioned already, the Discovery Channel Canada had a brief segment on their Daily Planet news show on Thursday, April 13, 2006. The segment was called Up, up, and away and can be seen online. What’s 17 stories high and has a great view of Niagara Falls? Canada’s newest and biggest Ferris Wheel…
Newcastle University Library in the United Kingdom has what is believed to be the first photographs of Niagara Falls in their Special Collections, from around 1840. The images are daguerreotypes (one of the earliest types of photographs) and were taken by H. L. Pattinson. There are many images in the collection. If you start at…
From CBC.ca: Jan. 27, 1938 In a cloud of snow and ice, the great bridge that crossed the Niagara River has collapsed upon itself. Now, all that remains of the Honeymoon Bridge are tangled cable lines, crushed wooden beams and twisted metal. Under the weight of an enormous amount of ice, the bridge’s beams gave…
From AmusementBusiness: Vancouver billionaire Jim Pattison has shelved a potential $100-million investment in a Niagara Falls entertainment site until he can assess the impact of new U.S. rules requiring all cross-border travelers to carry passports starting in January 2008, the Toronto Globe & Mail reports. The threat to U.S. travelers’ ability to move back and…
This is an interesting article from a Malaysian web site: If there’s anywhere to find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, it’s Niagara Falls. Home to the most resplendent of rainbows, so beautiful yet so close you could almost touch them. Globetrotter KENNY T paints a colourful spectrum of the sights,…
From Niagara This Week: After a year and a half of construction, Canada’s first Great Wolf Lodge has arrived. All 406 rooms of the $130 million resort were filled for its official opening Friday, giving the head wolf a sheepish grin. “The best part is watching the kids’ faces when they walk in the door,”…
Several weeks ago my family went “over the river” to mail something off at a USPS location. While we were over there, I wanted to check out Niagara Falls Stake Park. It’s beautiful! I know Spring is here, and people don’t want to think about winter, but I have some great pictures of both the…
From My Web Times: …there is no single waterfall actually named “Niagara Falls.” Originating at the east end of Lake Erie, the Niagara River flows about 21 miles north from Buffalo, N.Y., to Niagara Falls, N.Y. Here, the river forms three waterfalls, divided by a landmass known as Goat Island. On the island’s east side,…
The following is posted on a forum on the Lonely Planet website (a travel guide website): hi there, i am looking for advice as to which hotel would qualify as the cheesiest in Niagara falls (Canada side), or really any spot in eastern Canada that would fit the bill, I am thinking heart shaped beds…
From Newswise.com: When the Niagara Parks Commission posed that question back in 2004, the concern was that high-rise hotels on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls were contributing to the creation of more mist, obscuring the very view that millions of tourists flock there every year to see. The suspicion was that new high-rise buildings…