From the Globe and Mail: Vancouver billionaire Jim Pattison has shelved a potential $100-million investment in a Niagara Falls entertainment site until he can assess the progress and impact of new U.S. rules requiring all cross-border travellers to carry passports starting in January, 2008. The threat to U.S. travellers’ ability to move back and forth…
From the New York Times: As theater, the “Oh Canada Eh?” dinner show and the Shaw Festival, whose current season includes an Ibsen play, have little in common. But while their productions may appeal to different kinds of audiences, the organizations behind the two theaters have the same worries about a relatively recent American law…
The Winter Festival of Lights ended back in January. They are just now taking down the frames that hold the lights:
On Monday afternoon I went up the Falls Tower Ride and got a couple of good pictures of the new HOCO construction on Clifton Hill:
From Buffalo Business First: The opening of the first phase of the Great Wolf Lodge project in Niagara Falls was both a smash and a splash. Literally. The $135 million project – touted as the largest tourism destination project currently underway in Canada – made its official debut Thursday afternoon. The first phase includes a…
From Sys-Con.com: The doors of Great Wolf Lodge, Canada’s premier family destination resort, are ready to open and the stage is set for the biggest pool party to ever hit Niagara Falls. A Hollywood-style rock concert featuring Smash Mouth, known for chart-toppers like “Walkin’ on the Sun,” “All Star,” “Then the Morning Comes,” and hits…
From the Buffalo News: The city skipped right over spring and jumped into summer Thursday with the opening of a $210 million resort and indoor water park, the Great Wolf Lodge. The year-round destination is one of two multimillion-dollar indoor water parks opening this month on the Canadian side of the falls, a much closer…
From BellaOnline: One of the classic attractions when visiting Niagara Falls, either on the New York or the Canada side, is to take a ride on the Maid of the Mist. As one of the oldest tourist attractions in the U.S. and Canada, operating since 1846, Maid of the Mist boats are the only way…
From Yahoo! Finance: NIAGARA FALLS, ON, April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort is hosting a press conference with the City of Niagara Falls, the Niagara Parks Commission, the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation and the Canadian Tourism Commission. Date: Wednesday, April 19 Time: 11am Location: Maple Room A/B Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort…
Last Thursday the legs/struts/forks (or whatever else you want to call them) went up for the new Niagara SkyWheel: The legs were assembled on the ground Someone was filming the work The legs connected to the supports on the ground The top of the legs The completed legs (almost) Two other legs were put on…