Historic Niagara Digital Collections

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• Summer Games Make a Splash

  Swimming / Triathlon Sprint Female Final / Welland International Flatwater Centre
• History in the news : The 'old' Stamford Centre (no date)

  Stamford Centre / Thorold Road / Portage Road / Drummond Road
• Mather Arch is seen under construction : Mather Arch part of history (no date)

  Mather, Alonzo C. / The Mather Memorial Arch
• History in the news : Blondin was the first and greatest daredevil (no date)

  Gravelot, Jean Francois / Blondin / daredevil / rope-walker
• 'Magical' lantern event sheds light on Asian hate

  Asian Community / Water Lantern Festival / Niagara Folk Arts Multicultural Centre / Chippawa Park / Kovacs, Emily / Wishes on the Water / Huang, Helen / Lion Dancers / Ontario Trillium Foundation / Welland Heritage Council / Fort Erie Multicultural Centre
• Niagara Artists Centre to auction off collection : Treanor had built a vast collection of Niagara art

  "Papa Tee" / Treanor, Nicholas / St. Paul Street / Papa Tee Show Mobile / Remus, Stephen / Sexsmith, Ron / Treanor, Shannon / "Rocky Horror Picture Show / Rodman Hall / Niagara Roller Girls / The Woodshed Orchestra
• Chippawa native Dr. Thomas H. Hogg, a force in Ontario Hydro's growth (no date)

  Hogg, Thomas Henry (Dr.) / electric power Ontario Hydro
• Service planned at BME church 139th anniversary (no date)

  BME Church / Peer Street / Blackwood, Ronald (Rev.) /
• Dufferin Islands was the site of first industry (no date)

  Bridgewater Mills / Burch, John / Butler's Rangers
• William Lyon Mackenzie, the notorious publisher who hated a government (no date)

  MacKenzie, William Lyon / printing press / Colonial Advocate / Mackenzie House
• On St. Patrick's Day 45 years ago : Worst snowstorm ever gripped Niagara (No Date)

  Winter storm / residents stranded
• Cook, John

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• Eckert, Viola (Durksen)

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• Crofts, Stewart

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• Hendry, William George (Bill)

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• Simpson, Margaret (Jane)

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• Rusin, Stanley Maryan

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• Campbell, David

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• Scricca, Norma Marie (nee Miotto)
• Wigmore, Lawrence

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• Toth, Ida (nee Sirianni)

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• Fournier, Monique (nee Roy)

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• Higgins, Wilfred Edward (Wilf) Captain (Res.)

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• Tufford, Reginald Willis

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• Jamieson, Ronald William (Ronnie)

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• Graham, Jo Ann (nee Brown)
• Kennedy, Andrew

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• Woodhouse, Joyce Ruby

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• Driver pleads guilty to fatal hit-and-run that killed a Niagara Falls woman

  Parent, Elizabeth / Lundy's Lane / Gawronski, John / Lundy Manor / Westlane Secondary School
• Niagara Place festival hub celebrating 'everything Niagara' over next two weeks

  Letourneau, Andrea / Franco-Ontarian culture / Canada Games Park / Hamilton, Doug / Paul, Kelly-Ann / JONSEY / Metis Fiddlers / Niagara Symphony's instrument petting zoo / Improv Niagara / Juliet Dunn Trio / Drag Queen story time / Momentum Choir / Norm Foster play reading / Sandy, Kevin / Iroquois Lacrosse Program / Ontario Trillium Foundation /
• Canada Summer Games officially start with opening night spectacle : 'this is a major, major event taking place. It's important to all of Canada'

  Sta Maria, Taija / Hamilton, Doug / Lumsden, Neil / Bradley, Jim / Strange, Mike / Steinbach-Parker / Youth Indigenous Ambassador / Roberge, Patrick / Kit, Kristen / Gary Parker of Tonawanda Seneca Territory / DJ Shub / Dunn, Juliet / Hicks, Tim / Zacada Circus School Performers / St-Onge, Pascale
• Design for Neil Peart memorial not yet chosen

  Rush Drummer / Lakeside Park / A Day On The Bridge Inc. / Morgan Sculptures Inc. / Morgan Sculptures Inc. / R.J. Burnside & Associates LTD. / Abernathy, Ruth / Fullerton, Tom / The Planning Partnership / Lamothe, Eric
• Cigic, Damir Ivica (Dan)

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• Barkwill, John (Wayne)

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• Zalokar, Frank

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• McCleary, Myles Brian

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• Blasko, Erna Agnes

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• Konkle, Edward Blake

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• Dayboll, Dorothy May

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• LaFontaine, Gaetan Ray (Gaets)

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• Goss, Ronald David

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• Weaver, Joan

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• Pluhar, Andrew (Andy)

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• Midena, Kristine Mary

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• Malowany, Wendy

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• Zelenbaba, Emily Felicia (nee Dennis)

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• Martinuk, Jeanette (Jean)

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• McKellar, Joyce

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• McCleary, Myles Brian

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• Romanelli, Giambattista (John)

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• Casagrande, Luigi

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• Saje, Anica (Anne)
• Lance, Patrick Xavier

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• Regionalize fire services
• Same old politics

  Harper, Stephen / Poilievre, Pierre / Trump, Donald / Johnson, Boris / Orban, Victor / Bolsonaro, Jair / Ford, Doug
• Killing of Boo unnecessary

  Arctic wolf / Port Colborne
• Is this really who we are?

  West Lincoln / Jonker, Harold / Bittle, Chris / "Freedom Convoy"
• Newest theatre opens Thursday : First city cinema built in 1913 (no date)

  The Queen / The Seneca Theatre / Queen Street Huttlemayer, Albert
• Replaced by gas station lot : Old Stamford CVI watering hole is being torn down after 48 years

  Niagara Falls Grocery Co. / Lundy's Lane / Drummond Road / demolition
• Five-corners landmark gone (no date)

  Hope's Restaurant / Hope, Earl / demolition
• Library site the city's 5th (no date)
• Spent 10 days here : Dickens raved about Niagara Falls (no date)

  Dickens, Charles
• History in the news : The old town hall (no date)

  Drew, John / Latshaw, John / Town Hall
• Once site of bloody battle Drummond Hill manse is razed

  Drummond Hill Presbyterian Church / McGarry Dr. / Battle of Lundy's Lane
• R.P. Slater was responsible for growth of Glenview (no date)

  Slater, Robert Peter / Silvertown / Glenview
• Table Rock House history spans more than 100 years (no date)

  Table Rock House / Davis, Saul / Barnett, Thomas
• Lord Durham's recommendations felt in Niagara by 1844 (No Date)

  Lord Durham / govenor general / Lord Durham's Report / Drummondville
• Lance, Patrick Xavier

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• Twocock, Edward Cameron
• Burr, Jack W.

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• Mearns, Helen Joan (nee Andreychuk)

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• Band, Edgar
• Reles, Barry Vincent

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• Julian, Gerald Wayne

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• Tota, Maria

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• Cassar, Mary

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• Malaguti, Gisele Desneige

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• Murtland, Elsie (nee Woelk)

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• Tufford, Reginald Willis

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• Algra, Nancy Jo (nee Bekkering)

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• Malcomson, Janet Catherine (nee Lucin)

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• Vallee, Betty (nee Gibbons)

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• Sheppard, Robert Dr.

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• Toth, Florence (Bielby)

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• Cameron, Nina

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• Lean days come to lake park where hundreds once played (no date)

  Lake Side Park / Port Dalhousie / Brookson, Sydney
• WWI Memorial Chosen in Referendum : Clock tower remains focal point of Lake town (No date)

  Carnochan, Janet / Niagara Falls Historical Society / fallen soldiers
• History in the news : The bridges at Chippawa (no date)

  Welland River / Chippawa / King's Bridge
• Beaverdams Methodist Church 1832 : Church is 150 years old

  Beaverdams United Church / Swayze, Hiram / Eastmen, Daniel Ward
• Historic landmark finds new life as restaurant

  Niagara Falls Milling Company / Old Stone Inn / Clark Street / Robinson Street
• Niagara's 'benefactor' built stone home for pioneer clan (No Date)

  Howard Johnson Hotel / Zimmerman Samuel / Victoria Ave
• Historical society preserved famous peninsula landmark (No Date)

  Battlefield House / Gage House / Gage, James & Mary
• Maid IV lowered into the gorge in flawless fashion

  Maid of the Mist IV / Thiel, Bob / Modern Crane
• Ship was blockade runner, cruise craft, barge

  The 'Chicora' / Riel Rebellion / Milloy, M. / Canada Post / Lord Dufferin
• Flu killed 150 residents during pandemic in 1918

  Influenza epidemic
• Now relics, buildings housed prosperous businesses

  St. Jude Mission / Park Street
• New book has wealth of UEL lore

  United Empire Loyalists / Green Family / Mika, Nick & Helma
• Laura Secord's part recognized : Park to commemorate Battle of Beaverdams

  Battle of Beaverdams / Fitzgibbon, James Lt. / DeCou, John Capt.
• Maid IV inches toward river

  Maid of the Mist / Modern Crane
• Normally fine climate has had its run-ins with Mother Nature

  American Can. Company / Lewis Avenue / cyclone