From Niagara This Week: Marineland and animal rights activist Phil Demers have been talking at each other, through their lawyers, for the past six years. But it took just six words to bring the police to his door this week, Demers says: “Life is short, steal a walrus.” He put out the six-word Twitter post…
From the Niagara Falls Review: History came alive Sunday as Sherman Zavitz, the city’s official historian, hosted a walking tour of Chippawa. Before a crowd of 80 people, Zavitz said the area was first mentioned 339 years ago, even before there was a town. On Dec. 7, 1678, Louis Hennepin, a missionary and explorer, became…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission has issued a formal Request for Proposals to the planning, architectural and landscape architectural consultant community to help develop a renewed master plan that will become the provincial agency’s blueprint for the future. The purpose of the master plan is to guide continued development, programming and…
From Niagara This Week: More information on a measure that would allow municipalities to institute a hotel room tax is needed before what that may mean for Niagara Falls can be determined, says Mayor Jim Diodati. “I’d be very interested to learn more,” Diodati said Friday morning while attending a tree planting at Lions Park…
This St Catharines Standard article is about the holiday weekend in May. Based on my observations from Wednesday, July 1 (Canada Day), it should have been another successful day for the tourism industry. The tourists are back in town. Many visitors took advantage of the great weather during the Victoria Day holiday weekend to have…
Hello folks, My name is Lisa and I am from Rochester NY I have been traveling to and from Niagara Falls since I was little. The Hotel we have stayed in the most was – Fallsway Motor Hotel which of course became the Quality Inn Clifton Hill, which than made way for the Niagara Skywheel. I…
This Niagara Falls Review article isn’t directly tourism-related, but it does involve the local IMAX theatre, so I figured I’d include it. Also, I’ve seen Avatar twice, and I’d love to see it in IMAX 3D 🙂 Still holding out hope to see Avatar at the Niagara Falls Imax? You might be waiting awhile. Despite…