Dollar Day returns to Niagara Falls

From Niagara This Week: It all started with a cough that wouldn’t go away for Angela Morris. “They started thinking I had pneumonia,” Morris, a Grade 9 student at Stamford Collegiate Secondary School says. As it turns out, doctors at Niagara Health’s St. Catharines site found it was something completely different — and life changing…

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Clifton Hill museum founder dies

From the St Catharines Standard: Believe it or not, there was a time Clifton Hill wasn’t filled with museums, arcades, shops and houses of horror. One man, Alec Rigby, helped pave the way for the hill to become Niagara Falls’ main tourist destination when he brought the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum to the…

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Museum secrets unveiled

From Niagara This Week: The exhibits for the most part are in place but there are still some finishing touches needed before the doors of a re-invented Niagara Falls History Museum swing open to the public for the first time on Saturday. “We moved in two months ago,” Niagara Falls Museums manager Clark Bernat said…

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Attractions open doors for a loonie to help charity

From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara museums will go loonie later this month with more than a dozen attractions in the Clifton Hill area offering a deep discount on admission prices for local residents. Niagara Falls residents can visit 14 attractions for $1 on Jan. 15 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The popular $1…

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Ripley’s owner still believes in the Falls

From the Niagara Falls Review: So what does the billionaire owner of Ripley Entertainment Inc. do when he’s in Niagara Falls? Believe it or not, Jim Pattison Jr. is just a regular tourist. He’ll visit Marineland, hit a winery, maybe check out the museums (he owns three of them, after all). But most of all,…

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Museums in Niagara Falls, Ontario

The Travel Tips section of the USA Today web site has information on Museums in Niagara Falls, Ontario: Niagara Falls, Ontario is a tourist destination for its main attraction, the world-famous Falls, which stand at 177 feet high on the Canadian side, and carry nine times more water than the U.S. Niagara counterpart, according to…

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