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• Chapter 8
• Hamilton, Susan Chloe Francis / Petrie, Paul Frederick John, Jr.
• Champion swimmer perished trying to swim raging rapids by Francis Petrie

  Review, July 21, 1973 / Captain Matthew Webb
• Petrie, Francis
• Petrie, Francis

  Leslie, Frank H.
• Petrie, Francis J.
• Petrie, Francis J.
• Debt of gratitude owed to Sir Casimir Gzowski
• Elevator in Eaton building was novelty 38 years ago

  Eaton's department store / Crysler homestead
• Petrie, Francis

  Niagara historian;
• Come see Wall of Fame

  Niagara Falls Public Library / NFPL / Leslie, Frank H. / Niagara Falls Review / Arts & Culture Wall of Fame / Niagara Square / Arts & Culture Committee / Victoria Avenue Branch / Historic Niagara Digital Collections / The Leslie Collections / Zavitz, Sherman / Official Historian of the City of Niagara Falls and Niagara Parks Commission / Petrie, Francis / Francis Petrie Collection
• 1938: Loretto burns, bridge collapses

  Loretto Academy
• Hydro move fourth in 93 years
• United Empire Loyalists first settlers

  Bender, Philip / McMicking, Thomas
• Subchaser Sunbeam met its end on rocky bottom of Niagara River
• New Polish cultural centre replaces city landmark
• Weishuhn's Point protected the area
• The story of how falls made know to world

  Hennepin, Louis
• Hotel and Navy Island - witnesses to history
• A Mini Ice Age: Ice bridge is beautiful but danger lurks near
• Last of the lookouts - no payoff, no tower
• Battle of Lundy's Lane has inspired poets

  Kirby, William
• The day the bridge fell down in Niagara - - or remember when 'the honeymoon ended'
• Spectacular hotel fire drew crowd in 1898

  Clifton House
• Niagara carnival colourful in 1899

  Carnival
• Niagara Falls war memorial was dedicated here 50 years ago
• River tragedy put end to ice walks

  Hecock, Burrell / Stanton, Eldridge
• Niagara peninsula was an armed camp
• Controversial Niagara quarry observes centennial this year
• 1927 blaze destroyed venerable landmark
• Chippawa one of the oldest communities in peninsula
• Last streetcar rumbled through our streets 30 years ago
• '77 in historical review

  Oneida factory / St. Andrew's United Church / Clark's Hardware
• After three generations: City's oldest hardware store will become restaraunt

  Clark's Hardware
• Rainbow bridge won 'most beautiful bridge' award
• Three Indian legends tell story of Maid of the Mist
• Creation of LCBO 50 years ago heralded prohibition's end

  Prohibition / Temperance Act
• Preservation of rustic roads good move historian claims
• Drummond Hill plots steeped in military history
• Historic landmark faces demolition order
• Four canals have transported ships to bypass Falls since 1829
• Souvenir issue of Daily Record published in 1907

  The Daily Record
• St. John's Church may be restored
• Inventor Edison filmed daredevil's river ride
• A crude road to the boat landing the beginning of Ferry Street
• Falls is described in 1807 book
• Historic home for quiet religious retreats has uncertain future

  Park Hall
• Victorian era passed 75 years ago after Britain's longest reign

  Queen Victoria
• '36 a busy year at River Rd., Clifton
• Only 2 grist mills operational in Niagara Peninsula
• Building was temporary police HQ for 22 years

  Dr. Afrukhteh, Djamal / Park Street / Zimmerman Avenue
• One of 1st pioneer families came 190 years ago

  Green, Charles
• River stunts, assassination of president in news 75 years ago

  McKinley, William
• Cayuga II to carry on historic name
• DeCew house was destination of Laura Secord walk

  Secord, Laura
• Lundys didn't fight in Lane battle
• Woman walked across gorge during U.S. Centennial

  Spelterini, Maria
• Era of 'barrel cranks' was marred by freak death of woman daredevil

  Graham, Carlisle D. / Allen, Sadie / Wagenfuhrer, Martha / Willard, Maud
• Battle for tourist dollar began at Table Rock
• Little Maid defied rapids 115 years ago
• Simcoe spurred Niagara settlement

  Simcoe, John Graves
• U.S. Independence document ranks among greatest
• How Masons killed man who planned to tell all

  Morgan, William
• Only native aerialist died mysteriously without fame

  Peer, Stephen
• Spectacular ice bridges were a big tourist draw
• Pre-Confederation tourists relaxed at bath house
• St. John the Evangelist Church will mark founding of Anglican Diocese of Niagara

  Fuller, Thomas Brock
• Tragedy averted in old Muddy Run
• Stamford United will celebrate 50th anniversary

  Anglican Diocese of Niagara / United Church of Canada / Presbyterian Church
• Grist mill was first local industrial use of river
• Park power plants were topic of controversy
• Old book describing area of interest to cottagers
• Lincoln viewed falls

  Lincoln, Abraham
• Depression responsible for NPC's takeover of park incline railway

  Clifton Incline railway
• Navy Island once base for rebels led by William Lyon Mackenzie
• Loss of bridge only one crisis for hard-luck village
• Earliest visitors to Niagara saw Indian ladders
• Anglican diocese has its 100th birthday
• Illumination of Falls thrills thousands
• Ceremony to mark 80 years since monument dedicated

  Battle of Lundy's Lane
• Former township hall opened 100 years ago

  Stamford Township Hall
• Historic school now is only a memory

  S.S. No. 7, Crowland school house
• Welland River played big role in Niagara's history
• It was 40 years ago fire destroyed incline building
• Demolition faces former Review building
• First a playground, Stamford Green now a site for war memorials
• Owner never lived to see his $175,000 mansion completed

  Zimmerman, Samuel
• One died in 1907 incline railway crash

  Whirlpool Rapids Incline
• Battle of Lundy's Lane fiercest of the war
• 95-year-old station the scene of welcome to royalty

  Bridge St.
• British thought American soldiers used Fort Erie encampment as ruse
• Welland Canal was hailed as an engineering marvel
• Prominent Niagaran had distinguished military career

  Leonard, Richard
• Willoughby United Church to mark 135th anniversary
• Old Refectory opens for 70th season

  Victoria Park Restaurant
• First residence built in Niagara Peninsula torn down: Fleeing loyalists named house after German homeland

  Palatine Hill
• Miss Rye's Niagara school a refuge for English waif

  Rye, Maria S.
• River Rd. building was Y home for 38 years

  YMCA
• Many Metro landmarks disappeared in 1973
• Battle resulted in highest casualties in War of 1812

  Battle of Chippawa