Building of the Maid of the Mist at the landing on the Canadian side
item
- Title
- Building of the Maid of the Mist at the landing on the Canadian side
- Date
- ca 1885
- ca 1975 (reproduction)
- Creator
- Campbell, Donna Marie
- Extent
- 33 x 25.98 cm
- Is Part Of
- Watercolour Collection
- Description
- en-CA Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation Government of Canada Local Initiatives Grant AK 2403-9 1974 - 1975 ; research by George Seibel ; The expansion of railway passenger service in the 1870's brought thousands of people to Niagara Falls on excursions, creating a whole new market for a Maid of the Mist boat trip. In 1884 R. F. Carter and Frank LeBlond, two enterprising citizens of Clifton, invested ten thousand dollars in a new Maid of the Mist. This boat, the third, was built at the deck on the Canadian side, where it launched in 1885. A sister ship was built on the U.S. side in 1892 ; photograph in the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society ;
- Type
- Still Image
- Medium
- Watercolour
- Subject
- Maid of the Mist
- Niagara River - Lower
- Construction
- Location
- Canada
- Canada - Ontario - Niagara Falls
- Identifier
- http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=102810
- locator
- WC 93
- Publisher
- Niagara Falls Heritage Foundation
- Date Created
- 2005-02-23
- Date Modified
- 2005-02-23
