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• Queenston Canada. Interior oldest printing office in Ontario. Brock's Monument in distance

  Image has been taken standing in the interior of the ruined house ; partial walls are on the right and back sides of the house ; rest of the ruin is obscured by a very large mature tree (left : Brock's Monument is visible in the distance (centre)
• Queen Street downtown business area - office of Margaret Harrington MPP (right)
• Niagara Navigation Co.'s [Company] dock at Lewiston USA

  Postcard has been laminated on card and publishing details are not visible ; ferry service ran between Lewiston and Queenston and also Toronto ;
• Steam ship Chicora at Queenston dock
• Riverview Inn in the village of Queenston
• Steam Ship Cayuga
• Entrance to Brock's monument at Queenston Heights Park

  negative Q-10 ;
• Cenotaph belonging to General Sir Isaac Brock at Queenston

  negative Q 11
• The Caroline Steam Boat precipitated over the Falls of Niagara

  The burning Steamer Caroline, with 10 people aboard, went over the Horseshoe Falls, on the night of December 29, 1837
• Aerial view of Queenston and the lower Niagara River
• Woman in chair
• Ron Yorke, Bill Gough, Victor Fraser, Erle Glennie and Jack Hodges in the control room of the Toronto Power Plant
• Jack Hodges, Erle Glennie and Henry Badger in the control room of the Toronto Power Plant
• Ron Yorke, Jack Hodges and Bill Gough in the control room of the Toronto Power Plant
• Victor Fraser in the control room of the Toronto Power Plant
• Lundy's Lane Methodist Church
• St Andrew's Presbyterian Church St Clair Avenue
• Niagara Falls Hydro building
• Falls View Public School S S no 2 Dunn Street
• Loretto Academy Niagara Falls
• Niagara Parks Commission - Refectory in Queen Victoria Park - front view
• Main Street

  Agnew Surpass Shoes and Berger's Restaurant (centre)
• Cars on the Niagara Parkway in Queen Victoria Park

  Rambler's Rest at Inspiration Point top left of picture ; speed limit posted at 10 miles ;
• Exterior walkway of the Toronto Power Plant - looking toward the brink of the Horseshoe Falls
• Interior of the Toronto Power Plant - generators
• Interior of the Toronto Power Plant - generators
• Interior of the Toronto Power Plant
• Interior of the Toronto Power Plant - generators
• Interior of the Toronto Power Plant
• Interior of the Toronto Power Plant
• Toronto Power Station forebay
• Exterior of the Toronto Power Station
• Exterior of the Toronto Power Station
• Interior of the Toronto Power Station - control room
• Interior view of the Toronto Power Station generators
• Toronto Power Station forebay
• Toronto Power Station interior entrance
• Rainbow over Niagara Falls - Rainbow Bridge in background
• Double rainbow over the brink of the Horseshoe Falls
• Double rainbow over the brink of the Horseshoe Falls
• Double rainbow over the brink of the Horseshoe Falls
• The old scow seen from inside the Toronto Power House
• Advertising flyer for T T Birkett coal merchant of Niagara Falls

  coal anthracite
• The icebreaker Bagotville in the Upper Niagara River

  ice breaker winter
• St Patrick's Church Hall
• Mount Carmel College
• Alexandra Standard Hotel

  Located on the north side of Clifton Hill just east of the MCRR [Michigan Central Railway] station ;
• Construction workers excavating roadbed for new railway tracks on Ferry Street
• Soldiers Monument [Battle of] Lundy's Lane Niagara Falls at Drummond Hill Cemetery
• Bridge Street at Erie Avenue decorated for a parade

  ST RAILWAY ANNEX CAFE TRENNICK HOTEL ANNIVERSary
• Monuments to General Sir Isaac Brock and Laura Secord at Queenston Heights Park
• Imperial Bank of Canada and J R Williams Garage and Motor Sales Company on Bridge Street
• Unveiling and dedication of the Soldier's Monument in Queen Victoria Park
• Unveiling of cairn for Indian Ossuary and Maitland Estate at St David's Hill
• Unveiling of cairn for Indian Ossuary and Maitland Estate at St David's Hill
• Marland Woolnough Co [Company] wholesale grocers

  Building later became National Grocers
• Duke and Duchess of York exiting the Maid of Mist, Niagara Falls

  SARAH ANDREW FERGIE FERGUSON ROYAL VISITS
• Centre fire hall
• Spring storm aftermath - frozen Horseshoe Falls

  Sightseeing binoculars in foreground ;
• Fireworks over the American Falls July 4th 1978 taken from the Canadian side

  First fireworks over the American Falls
• Fred Hughes in the control room of the Toronto Power Plant
• Doc Paxton and A Weaver in the control room of the Toronto Power Plant
• King Edward Hotel
• The Evening Review building at Park and Clifton Street

  Example of early lamp post right ;
• Niagara Falls Public Library - Victoria Avenue - Alice Haigh staff member with Frederick Church painting of Niagara
• Board walk Crystal Beach Canada
• Michigan Central Rail Road train crew
• Table Rock House under construction and covered in ice
• Clifton Hotel decorated for the visit of the Prince of Wales - crowds waiting at Mowat Gate
• Our Lady of Peace Roman Catholic Church Stanley Ave - south side
• American and Horseshoe Falls at Niagara
• Crest of Horseshoe (Canadian ) Falls, southeast from Table Rock
• American and Horseshoe Falls at Niagara
• American Falls - Suspension bridge in background
• Crest line of the Horseshoe Falls after a rock slide - seen from Prospect Point

  Loretto Convent in far background centre ;
• American Falls - Maid of the Mist in foreground
• Queen Victoria Park - Horseshoe Falls and the Niagara Parkway in background

  Dominion Grocers food truck parked at rear of building ;
• Bridge to Cedar Island and the Horseshoe Falls
• Brink of the Horseshoe Falls from Table Rock
• Brink of the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara looking toward the American shore line
• Crest of the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara
• Crest of the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara
• Niagara Horseshoe Falls from near Table Rock

  From a stereograph ; negative TR-30
• Brink of the Horseshoe Falls
• Lower Niagara River near the Whirlpool Rapids
• American Falls
• Ice conditions American Falls from Luna Island
• Aerial View of Niagara Falls

  Niagara River flowing from left to right ; International Hydro Control Dam (left center) ; Horseshoe and American Falls (centre) ; Rainbow Bridge (right) ; Niagara Falls Ontario (top of picture) ; Niagara Falls New York (bottom)
• Niagara Falls by Electric Light

  Photograph contained in book Picturesque Canada : the country as it was and is by George Monro Grant published by Belden Bros 1882 ;
• Niagara Whirlpool and Rapids
• Niagara Whirlpool Rapids with Lower Steel Arch Bridge in background
• Lower Niagara River and Gorge near the Whirlpool Rapids
• Lower Niagara River and Gorge near the Whirlpool Rapids
• Whirlpool Rapids with Railway Suspension Bridge and Cantilever Bridge in background
• Ice in the lower Niagara River and the Gorge
• Whirlpool Rapids and the Lower Niagara River
• Whirlpool Rapids, Lower Niagara River, Thompson's Point (left)
• Whirlpool Rapid Niagara Falls

  Contained in the book "Picturesque Canada : the country as it was and is" by George Munro Grant published by Belden Bros, 1882 ;
• Ravine near the Whirlpool [Rapids]

  Note mill and water wheel in background ;
• The American and Horseshoe Falls - Ferry landing and waiting carriages in foreground on the Canadian side