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• N.F.C.V.I. Senior Boys Basketball Team 1953

  All Ontario Champions 1953 In photo, left to right: Back Row: Mr. A.G. McColl (Principal), Bob MacDougall, Frank Slater (Manager), John Sheppard, Bill Burleigh, Ray Nagy, Mr. J.V. Rose (Coach) Front Row: Dave Hanniwell, Ron Renzetti, Larry Triano, Howie Triano (Captain), Andy Fisher, Horace Logan, Emil Badovinac.
• N.F.C.V.I. Senior Boys Basketball Team 1952

  COSSA and Ontario Champons 1952 In photo, left to right: Back Row: Mr. A.G. McColl (Principal), Andy Fisher, Zoli Janvary, Dick MacKenzie, Don McColl, Alex Pivarynik (Manager), Mr. J. V. Rose (Coach) Front Row: Frank Bromhall, Abbie Coulson, Pete Potter (Captain), Horace Logan, Howie Triano, Absent - Ron Renzetti
• Brad Rootes, Michael Kemp & Dustin Bianchin

  left to right: Brad Rootes, Dustin Bianchin & Michael Kemp
• Ralph Scholz

  Ralph Scholz was born in Brantford, Ontario in 1961 and moved to Niagara Falls in 1969. Ralph began his football career in 1973, in the inaugural season of the Niagara Falls YMCA Minor Football league. He continued to play for two more years before entering High School and becoming a member of the A.N. Myer Marauders Junior and Senior Football teams. In 1978 and 1979, Ralph led the Marauder teams to back to back S.O.S.S.A. Championships in football. He also won S.O.S.S.A. as a heavy weight wrestler in those same years. Ralph was a Myer Letterman, team MVP, Captain, City All-Star Selection and he was selected as the “Best Lineman” at the Hamilton Ti-Cats High School Football Camp. In 2008, Ralph was inducted into the A.N. Myer Sports Wall of Honour. Ralph’s strength, success and dominance in football was rewarded with a scholarship to play for the prestigious, Ivy League, Cornell University Big Red Football Team. Once again, Ralph was a Letterman and excelled as a Defensive Lineman for his team. In 1983, he was honoured by being chosen to the All Ivy 1st Team, and in 1984 graduated with a Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering Degree.
• Ray McGibbon

  Ray McGibbon began boxing around the age of 15 and his boxing career led him to box in Madison Square Gardens and Maple Leaf Gardens. In 1946, Ray was a Golden Gloves finalist. The same year, Ray and his brother John established the St. Patrick’s Boxing Gym. In the late 1970's, Ray McGibbon started the Niagara Falls Boxing Club with John Degazio. Through the years, Ray coached many champions. He was part of the 1983 and 1984 Ontario Boxing Championships, when the Niagara Falls Boxing Gym won the Trophy for Most Outstanding Team, winning eight gold medals, one silver and one bronze medal. Ray coached many boxers who became Ontario and Canadian Champions and Olympians including Tom"The Bomb" Glesby and Billy"the Kid"Irwin. Ray also coached Brian Kelly and Mike Strange, both former Inductees of the Niagara Falls Sports Wall of Fame. Each year, the St. Catharines Boxing club hosts the “Ray McGibbon’s Gloves Tournament”, named after Ray McGibbon. This tournament is a stepping stone for many amateur boxers to advance their competitive careers as boxers from across Ontario contend for the coveted title. Ray is known by his boxers as being an “old school coach” and would spar with his fighters regularly, even though he was in his fifties or sixties. Ray still drops by the gym and lends a hand to his former boxes, Bill Irwin and Mike Strange, who are now coaches. Ray’s legacy will be brought to young boxers for years to come as his old school boxing techniques will be passed down from generation to generation!
• Danny D'Addio

  In 1974, at 37, Danny D’Addio and the members of The Niagara Falls Rotary Club were invited to a luncheon at the local YMCA. A member of the fitness class interrupted the meeting, suggesting their time would be better spent working out in their noon fitness program. Danny took up the challenge and enrolled the next day. Within months he discovered he had an extraordinary talent for running—especially marathons, exhibiting both the speed and endurance needed for the 42.2-kilometre (26 miles) event. That summer, Danny entered a YMCA regional cross-country race in Hamilton where he finished first in his age division, proving to himself that he could compete at a higher level. The competitive spirit was now in his blood, and with the help of a local seasoned marathon runner he set out on a training program that would see him become one of the top long-distance runners in the area, on either side of the border. In 1976 he accomplished a feat that was rare at the time: he ran two marathons in one week. The first was on Labour Day Monday at Rochester, New York, and the following Saturday he won his age division at a marathon in Erie, Pennsylvania. Danny routinely medalled in the newly organized Skylon International Marathon, from Buffalo to Niagara Falls, taking individual and team awards as a member of Track Niagara. As well, he competed in notable events such as the Boston Marathon, Blossom Festival, Run for the Grapes and the historic Man-a-Mile race from Niagara-on-the-Lake to Oakes Park.
• Stamford Collegiate Junior Girls Basketball Team 1966-1967

  Left to Right: Back row: Marg Newton(Coach), Tella Sametz, Helen Henderson, Sally Yarr, Betty Maxim, Betty Johnston, Karen House Front row: Sue MacRae, Rosmary Chisholm, Hilda Heximer (Co-Captain), Anne Gibbs (Co-Captain), Judy Lewis, Bonnie Cronin
• Stamford Collegiate Junior Girls Basketball Team 1965-1966

  Left to Right: Back row: Mira Pejnovic (Manager), Shirley Cook, Hilda Heximer, Helen Henderson, Judy Lewis, Betty Johnston, Sally Yarr, Miss Saunders (Coach) Front row: Marsha Booth, Anne Gibbs, Sue MacRae (Co-Captain), Judy Waterhouse (Co-Captain), Cindy Gold, Tella Sametz
• Stamford Collegiate Junior Girls Basketball Team 1964-1965

  Left to Right: First row: Betty Johnston, Rosemary Chisholm, Susan MacRae, Judy Lewis, Tella Sametz, Marsha Booth. Second row: Betty Lou Warlo, Cindy Gold, Hilda Heximer, Marita Lepins, Mary Frances Waterhouse. Third row: Coach Saunders, Judy Waterhouse, Jane Gregory, Helen Henderson
• N.F.C.V.I. Senior Boys Basketball Team 1951

  All Ontario Champions, 1951 In photo, left to right: Back Row: Mr. W.F. Tane (Principal), Zoli Janvary, Jim McCutcheon, Paul Sullivan, Carl MacKenzie, Mr. J.V. Rose (Coach) Front Row: Ron Renzetti, Howie Triano, Frank Bromhall, Dick MacKenzie (Captain), Pete Potter, Horace Logan, John Terdick (Manager) Insert: Pete Sorley Inducted at ceremony held on January 17, 2010.
• Louis Ceccato

  Louis Ceccato, an outstanding Middleweight Class Boxer, was a Golden Glove Champion in 1934. Only a broken hand, in a qualifying fight for the Olympic trials, could slow him down. In 1958, Lou managed an Ontario boxing team that competed at the Canadian Boxing Championships and British Empire Games in Vancouver. At home in Niagara Falls, Lou not only participated in some of the biggest boxing events in our City, but he became a boxing event promoter, giving young fighters like Brian Kelly the public exposure and experience necessary to further their careers. Lou used his love of the sport to help teach and inspire boxers, and to give other people who shared his passion the chance to keep the sport alive in Niagara and across the country. This ‘Falls boy’ as the papers called him, was one of the smartest fighters of his time and one of the best referees in our area. He truly showed how love of sport can shape an entire life, and the lives of others. Lou participated on many championship sports teams that were sponsored by his employer Niagara Wire Weaving. Besides playing for the above teams, Lou coached the Niagara Falls Dynamo Football team of 1947, a team that won the Intermediate “B” Ontario Championship. Louis Ceccato was a life long resident of Niagara Falls and made outstanding contributions in the field of athletics, as a participant, coach, referee and boxing promoter. In addition, Lou’s accomplishments inspired his children to become outstanding athletes and sports contributors in Niagara Falls.
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Allison Termaat, Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201, Ben Termaat, and Grace Termaat Posing With the Torch
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Grace Termaat, Who Later Presented the Torch to Mayor Ted Salci in an Official Ceremony
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Group Shot of Torchbearers at Table Rock
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201 Holding Torch Aloft - Ferris Wheel in Background
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201 Holding Torch Aloft at Table Rock
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201 Carrying the Olympic Torch
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201 Carrying the Olympic Torch
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201 Carrying the Olympic Torch
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201 Holding Torch Aloft in Front of the Canadian Flag
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201 Holding Torch Aloft in Front of the Canadian Flag
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201 Holding Torch Aloft
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Official Olympic Mittens Worn by Meron Lomas to Photograph the Relay
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torch Being Carried Down Queen Street
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torch Being Carried Down Queen Street
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torch Being Carried Down Queen Street & Passed on to Next Torchbearer 5
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torch Being Carried Down Queen Street & Passed on to Next Torchbearer 4
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torch Being Carried Down Queen Street & Passed on to Next Torchbearer 3
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torch Being Carried Down Queen Street & Passed on to Next Torchbearer 2
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torch Being Carried Down Queen Street & Passed on to Next Torchbearer
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torch Being Carried Down Queen Street
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torchbearer Waiting for the Torch in Front of That's Amore Pizzeria
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torchbearer Waiting for Torch
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Support Van
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torchbearer Talking to Crowd in Front of That's Amore Pizzeria
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - RBC Van 2
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - RBC Van 1
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torchbearer Waiting for Torch
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Coca Cola Van
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torchbearer Beside Support Van in Front of That's Amore Pizzeria
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Official Vehicle in Front of That's Amore Pizzeria
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - St. Michael's Mustangs at Head of Procession on Queen Street in Front of Moodie's Bakery 2
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - St. Michael's Mustangs at Head of Procession on Queen Street in Front of Moodie's Bakery
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torchbearers Holding Unlit Torches - Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201 smiling at camera
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Support Van
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torchbearer briefing - Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201 smiling at camera
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torchbearer briefing. Sonya Romanowski, Torchbearer # 194 Looking at Camera.
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torchbearer briefing - Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201 smiling at camera
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Torchbearer briefing
• 2010 Olympic Torch Relay in Niagara Falls - Hannah Termaat, Torchbearer 201 modelling Torchbearer outfit
• Railway Suspension Bridge Niagara Falls

  View shows the end of the tracks at the American end of the bridge soon after the bridge was opened ;
• Train on the Railway Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls

  Photograph from a stereographic image by an unknown photographer ;
• Construction of the Lower Steel Arch Bridge over the Whirlpool Rapids Niagara Falls

  Photograph of a stereograph published by Griffith & Griffith ;
• Collapse of the rock wall in the Niagara Gorge underneath the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge
• Lower Steel Arch & Michigan Central Railway [MCRR] Bridge construction at Niagara Falls NY
• Lower Steel Arch & Michigan Central Railway [MCRR] Bridge construction at Niagara Falls NY
• Train crossing the Michigan Central Rail Road Arch Bridge US side

  There is a handwritten note in the bottom right corner which indicates that the train crossing the bridge is the first train to do so ;
• CP [Canadian Pacific] train on the Whirlpool Rapids Railway Arch Bridge over Niagara Gorge

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• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (r)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (q)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (p)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (o)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (l)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (k)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (j)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (i)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (h)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (g)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (f)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (d)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (c)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (b)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
• Fire Consuming the Former Rosbergs Department Store in Niagara Falls (a)

  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; located at 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; located at 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; located at 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; located at 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; located at 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; located at 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; located at 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; located at 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; located at 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store located at 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;
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  The vacant former Rosbergs Department Store was destroyed by fire on October 4, 2009 ; location 4656 Erie Avenue, on the corner of Queen & Erie ;