History of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Name: Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Address: Niagara Falls, ON, Canada

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Niagara Falls, Ont, incorporated as a city in 1904, population 82 997 (2011c), 82 184 (2006c). The City of Niagara Falls possesses a fame and name that are based on the resplendent, world-famous NIAGARA FALLS on the NIAGARA RIVER.

The earliest hotel was built in 1822 on the Portage Road overlooking the falls, and by the 1850s several small communities had developed around this scenic attraction and close to the historic site of LUNDY'S LANE, where a battle was fought towards the end of the WAR OF 1812.

The first bridge was built across the Niagara Gorge in 1848, and in 1853 the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY arrived, establishing a railhead where the Niagara Suspension Bridge crossed the Niagara River. The Niagara Cantilever Bridge opened immediately to the south in 1883 for the Canada Southern-Michigan Central Railways, and in 1897 the Niagara Railway Arch Bridge was built under and into the suspension bridge to replace its predecessor. These bridges, as great feats of engineering, along with the scenic attractions of the river at the falls and the beginning of rail passenger excursions in 1878, brought thousands of tourist visitors to Niagara Falls.

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1846 - June 18 - The Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company opens Canada's first telegraph system, from Toronto to Hamilton and Niagara Falls.

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1857 - Church of Our Lady of Peace Shrine of St. Therese established at Niagara Falls

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1858 - Church of St. Patrick established at Niagara Falls

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1859 - Acrobat Crosses Gorge on Tightrope
1859, June 30 - French acrobat Charles Blondin (Jean-François Cravelet) crosses the Niagara Gorge from the US to Canada by tightrope before a crowd...Read MORE...
1873
NIAGARA, formerly NEWARK, an incorporated town of Ontario, co. of Niagara, situated on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of Niagara river, and on the C.S....Read MORE...
Niagara By Electric Light

1882 - Lucius O'Brien - Picturesque Canada (1882–84)
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Niagara

1882 - Lucius O'Brien - Picturesque Canada (1882–84)
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Rapids Above the Falls

1882 - Lucius O'Brien - Picturesque Canada (1882–84)
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1895 - Niagara
Niag'ara (formerly Newark), a town of Ontario, co. of Niagara, on Lake Ontario, at the mouth of Niagara River, and on the Canada Southern Railway, 36 ...Read MORE...
Table Rock House, Niagara Falls, Canada
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Horseshoe Falls from below, Niagara, Canada
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1906
Niagara Falls, a banking town and port of entry of Welland co., Ontario, on the Niagara River, 2 miles below the falls, on the Michigan Central and...Read MORE...
The Whirlpool and Giant Wave, Niagara Falls
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1913 - Church of St. Ann established at Niagara Falls

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1921 - SAVES TWO FROM DROWNING. Girl of 15 Rescues Sisters Half Mile Above Niagara Falls.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Aug. 12. - Fifteen-year-old Phyllis Perry of Chippewa, Ontario, rescued Wilma and Cora Baldry, 17 and 12 years old,...Read MORE...
1924 - Church of the Sacred Heart established at Niagara Falls

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1930 - July 5 - Daredevil George Stathakis dies in a plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel, but his turtle survives

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The first European explorers in the Niagara Peninsula were the French who came from the St. Lawrence Valley via Lake Ontario early in the 17th...Read MORE...