Francis J. Petrie was for many years the City Historian of Niagara Falls, as well as the author of a regular newspaper column in the Niagara Falls Review.
After his death many of his photographs, negatives, slides, and postcards were donated to the Library.
The young people in this photo are coming from NFCVI - Rice Cresent ran between Jepson and Ryerson Cresent and connected with a lane which ran between two houses and brought them to the Northern end of NFCVI. This lane was closed in the seventies and the students no longer travel Rice Cresent
Trucks going into storage area where lumber is held prior to shipment to the U.S. - C.N.R. railway tracks to the right. Some of former Kimberly Clark building shows at far right.
At the same time of this work, the old street car tracks were removed. British Pottery Store behind Bantam Crane, store was owned by Harrison Miller before days of Flea Market, then Briggs etc.