{"id":2475,"date":"2008-01-21T08:23:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T13:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/winter-visit-to-niagara-an-icy-splendour\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T08:23:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T13:23:29","slug":"winter-visit-to-niagara-an-icy-splendour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/winter-visit-to-niagara-an-icy-splendour\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter visit to Niagara an icy splendour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1237\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;To make a break in a long Canadian winter, a small party was formed in the garrison of London, Canada West (now Ontario), at the beginning of 1843 to visit the falls at Niagara.&#8221; So wrote Sir James Alexander of the 14th Regiment as he introduced an account of a January journey to Niagara 165 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The little expedition consisted of two ladies, four officers and three servants. Wearing, as Alexander relates, &#8220;fur caps and furbreasted coats,&#8221; they travelled in three two-horse open sleighs that were well provided with &#8220;buffalo, fox and raccoon robes.&#8221; With bells ringing on the collars and breast-straps of the horses, the group left London, then a village of 2,600 people, and started out for Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: &#8220;To make a break in a long Canadian winter, a small party was formed in the garrison of London, Canada West (now Ontario), at the beginning of 1843 to visit the falls at Niagara.&#8221; So wrote Sir James Alexander of the 14th Regiment as he introduced an account of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}