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• An Electric Streetcar travelling through Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie, Lake Ontario in the background
• Mr. McNab

  B&W photograph
• Niagara, St Catharines & Toronto Railcar leaving Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie
• Lock One of the old Welland Ship Canal in Port Dalhousie
• Steam ship leaving Port Dalhousie Harbour and Welland Canal entrance
• Port Dalhousie harbour
• Water Slide at Lakeside Park Port Dalhousie, lighthouse in background
• Backstage at a Show - David Webster (Left), British and Canadian actor Barry Morse, his wife Sydney Sturgess, unknown man and George Strath (Right)

  Barry Morse was the artistic director of the Shaw Festival in 1966, so the date of the photo is probably around that time. The location is probably backstage at the Shaw Festival. Barry and Sydney were identified by the Facebook Group "Niagara History and Trivia".
• Sod Turning - George Burkator (Left) and John Clements (Right) Both Holding Shovel
• Girls

  Girls in the Photo: Myrtle Whittaker, Ellen Gibson, C. S. Stephen, Beck Cyers, Elsie Gray (?)
• George Seibel
• Laura Secord

  Negative available
• Private Guy Bernard Kennedy

  Died on October 29, 1918 at the age of 22; Son of Abram and Letitia Kennedy, of Niagara Falls, Ontario
• Private Victor A. Kennedy
• Ruth McKenzie - Author of "Laura Secord: The Legend and the Lady"

  Laura Secord: The Legend and the Lady
• Beryl Tidd - Official Town Crier

  Companion to Derek Tidd
• Derek Tidd - Official Town Crier

  Colour postcard
• Steam ship Dalhousie City entering Port Dalhousie Harbour
• Turkey Supper

  Left to Right: L. Morningstar, Don Shanks, Bob Chagnon
• Beach at Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie
• Maple Leaf Rubber Company in Port Dalhousie
• Steam ships docked at Port Dalhousie Harbour
• Steam ships docked at Port Dalhousie Harbour
• Steamships "Georgetown" and "W. B. Morley" in Port Dalhousie Harbour
• Charles Morrison

  Born in Stamford, Ont.
• Steam ship "Georgetown" headed into Port Dalhousie Harbour

  The Steamer "W. B. Morley" is leaving Port Dalhousie Harbour at left side of picture, to rear of the "Georgetown " ;
• Steam ship in Port Dalhousie Harbour
• Port Dalhousie harbour
• George Seibel

  George Seibel - Second from the right
• Port Dalhousie harbour and surrounding buildings
• Elizabeth Merriam Putnam

  aged 102 years, 10 months and 6 days old
• Bishop Strachan
• Chief Fireman S. C. Thomson (On Desk) & Chief Fireman Dave Kemp (Seated)
• Port Dalhousie beach at Lakeside Park
• Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie
• Sunbathing at Lakeside Park Port Dalhousie
• Beach at Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie, lighthouse in background
• Chief Fireman Dave Kemp
• Relaxing at the Beach at Lakeside Park Port Dalhousie
• Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie

  The Beach and Lake Ontario are just behind the trees in the background ;
• Entrance to Port Dalhousie Harbour

  Rutland Transit Company Ship in foreground ;
• Lock One of the old Welland Ship Canal in Port Dalhousie
• Port Dalhousie and the harbour
• Port Dalhousie and the harbour
• Mr. Morphy (?)

  Negative available
• Water Slide at Lakeside Park Port Dalhousie
• George Keefer, Esq. - First President of the Welland Canal Company
• Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie
• Sports field at Lakeside Park Port Dalhousie

  Electric Streetcar right side of photo ;
• Beach at Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie, lighthouse in background
• Sports field at Lakeside Park Port Dalhousie
• C. S. Stephen - Taken in New York

  Base Hospital 20, World War I; Clara (?) photo of a man exists with note "Clara Stephen's father NF Ont."
• Ships in Port Dalhousie Harbour
• Port Dalhousie Harbour from the foot of Lock Street
• Tug Boat J. D. Schofield docked in Port Dalhousie Harbour
• Beach at Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie
• Reverend Percival Mayes - 4th President of the Lundy's Lane Historical Society (1951)
• Ridgeway - Audrey Marr, Beeshy's China Shop
• Captain Benjamin D. Foulois, Commander

  B&W photograph
• Major General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe

  No. C 111307
• Judging Baked Goods

  Right - Mrs. Lindsay holding plate
• Niagara Falls Hydro Electric Commission

  B&W photograph
• Elizabeth Simcoe

  B&W photograph of a sketch
• Mayor O'Laughlin (Niagara Falls New York), and James Allan (Niagara Parks Commission)
• William Kirby (1817-1906)

  Author - Annals of Niagara (1896); reprinted 1972
• Mel Swart in the Sandy Swamp

  " x 8.25" B&W photograph
• Herb Pew - Captain of the Yacht Athena
• William Hamilton Merritt

  The man who dreamed up the first Niagara Suspension Bridge, also planned and promoted the first Welland Canal
• Guy Carleton
• Mrs. Lindsay
• Steam ship "Dalhousie City" pulling into Port Dalhousie Harbour
• Rowers on Twelve Mile Creek in Port Dalhousie
• Sports field at Lakeside Park Port Dalhousie
• Paul Natals (Left) at the Father Joseph O'Brien Centre
• Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie
• Yacht Club at Port Dalhousie
• Severin William Portraying Colonel John Butler

  Colonel John Butler was the founder of the first settlement on the West bank of the Niagara River
• Retirement of Mr. Critelli from Chippawa's Seperate School
• Paddle Boats at Lakeside Park Beach in Port Dalhousie
• Ken Barton on Horseback

  horse, horses
• Row boats on the Beach at Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie
• Steam ship entering Port Dalhousie Harbour
• Don Wilson, General Manager of NPC, Centre, Sharing a Joke with 2 Chinese Visitors on the right

  B&W photograph
• Port Dalhousie harbour
• Steamship "Dalhousie City" bringing passengers from Toronto to Port Dalhousie Harbour
• Honorable Sir Oliver Mowat, G.C.M.G., LL.D.

  Prime Minister of Ontario, 1872-1896
• Steamship "Cumberland" in Port Dalhousie Harbour
• Sports field at Lakeside Park Port Dalhousie, spectators watching a ball game
• Lock One of the old Welland Ship Canal in Port Dalhousie

  Photograph from a stereograph
• John George Lambton - 1st Earl of Durham, Governor-General of British America, 1838
• Steamship "Lakeside" leaving Port Dalhousie Harbour
• William Dummer Powell - Chief Justice of Upper Canada

  B&W photograph of a painting
• Mayor Wayne Thompson (Left)

  B&W photograph
• Egerton Ryerson - Considered to be the Father of Public Education
• Clara Stephen's Father
• Jamie Touhil - Mechanical Foreman & Fire Chief (at Cyanamid ?)
• Bridge over the Welland River in Port Robinson
• Port Robinson Community Centre, formerly a schoolhouse
• St Paul's Church in Port Robinson
• Port Robinson United Church

  Built 1851, demolished 1973 ;