Title

Niagara Winter sporting on the ice mountain / Niagara Falls in Winter

Description

from a stereo image

en-CA Since the fun and frolic of the times demonstrated in the photo, those involved with the annual ice bridges have come to look beyond the beauty and splendour of this natural wonder, and often find it only to be a bother. Such an attitude is demonstrated by writer Brian King in his article Niagara on the Rocks referring to the story of the entrapment of the salvage tug Good News in 1963. The massive ice jam on the Niagara River is an awesome sight of shimmering beauty for the tourist trade, but for boat-owners, shore-dwellers and Hydro officials, it's an awful pain in the neck ...

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=89378

Creator

Barker, George

Medium

Photograph

Extent

4.5" x 5.75" black & white

Provenance

Earl Brydges Public Library, Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Date

1890

Is Part Of

Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Collection

locator

v.17 p.21

Rights

Earl W. Brydges Public Library

Subject

Niagara River - Ice

Niagara River - Lower

Niagara Falls - General

Spatial Coverage

Canada - Ontario

number

D10214

Format

Photograph

Date Created

2002-08-28

Date Modified

2005-01-20