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5 unusual facts about Niagara


Niagara College Teaching Winery

The Niagara College Teaching Winery (NCT), Canada’s first commercial teaching winery, is located at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus of Niagara College within the Niagara Region of Ontario.

Niagara, New York

The Town of Niagara was founded in 1812 (originally as the "Town of Schlosser" after the local fortification Fort Schlosser and after Captain Joseph Schlosser, a German officer in the British Army) from the Town of Cambria.

Both Niagara, NY, and Town of Niagara, NY, are not acceptable, according to the United States Postal Service, when writing an address.

Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic

Niagara: Miracles, Myths and Magic is a 1986 IMAX film directed and produced by filmmaker Kieth Merrill.

Upper Canada Guardian

Its publisher and editor Joseph Willcocks established it after moving to Niagara in 1807 to combat arbitrary power, oppressive land laws, and ultimately create liberty in the province.


2010–13 NCAA conference realignment

CHA lost Niagara (which dropped the sport completely) and added Penn State, Lindenwood and RIT.

Annie Taylor

Annie Edson Taylor, first American to ride Niagara Falls in a barrel

Battle of Cook's Mills

The Battle of Cook's Mills was the last engagement between U.S. and British armies in the Niagara, and the penultimate engagement (followed by the Battle of Malcolm's Mills) on Canadian soil during the War of 1812.

Canadian Islamic Congress

At the Niagara-on-the-Lake conference of the Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies in June 2008, Wahida C. Valiante, national vice-president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, compared Mark Steyn to James Keegstra, an Alberta high school teacher who taught and tested his students on how Jews "created the Holocaust to gain sympathy. They basically talk about the same theories. This is not a civil dialogue."

Capture of Fort Niagara

On 9 October he ordered the troops on the Niagara peninsula to retreat hastily to Burlington Heights at the western end of Lake Ontario.

Catharine Montour

Missionary David Zeisberger recorded that Catharine was then still living near Niagara.

Citizens Regional Transit Corporation

This alternative route would be attractive for tourists to use between the many Niagara Falls attractions and the Buffalo Niagara International Airport.

CJED-FM

The station operated under a series of short-term special events licenses, each initially covering either the summer tourist season or Niagara Falls' annual Winter Festival of Lights.

Conkey

Conkey House, an 1842 historic home in Niagara County, New York

David Tisdale

He served in the Canadian Militia at the time of the Trent Affair in 1861, was promoted Captain in 1862 and at Niagara in 1865.

Don't Give Up the Ship

"Don't Give Up the Ship", words on the battle flag of Oliver Hazard Perry aboard the USS Niagara in the same year and also the name of a documentary video series by Kurt Sahlmann.

Donut Diner

At its peak, all Donut Diner locations were open 24 hours a day and was a major competitor to national donut giant Tim Hortons in Niagara and the GTA of Ontario.

Falls Road

Falls Road Railroad, a short-line railway between Niagara Falls and Brockport, New York, United States

Frederick S. Goring

The original owner of the farm was Francis Goring, who arrived at Fort Niagara in August 1776 at the age of 21 years, lived there during the American Revolution, and who was consequently knighted for starting one of the first schools in the Niagara area.

Greg Mitchell

He first worked in journalism as a summer intern for the Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Gazette (now the Niagara Gazette).

Highways in Niagara County, New York

I-190 heads from Erie County to Niagara County by way of the North Grand Island Bridge over the Niagara River and immediately connects to NY 384, the Robert Moses State Parkway, and the LaSalle Expressway at a complex interchange on the north side of the bridge in Niagara Falls.

Illinois Instant Riches

Splashdown was renamed Niagara for NY Wired after Niagara Falls.

Isaac Benson Lucas

He also served as government representative on the Hydro-Electric Commission and helped promote the development of a park in the area surrounding the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara.

Joan Murray

Her second book, Queen of the Mist, a novel-in-verse about the first person to go over Niagara in a barrel, was chosen by Joyce Carol Oates as runner up for a Poetry Society of America award; she was also commissioned by Broadway’s Jujamcyn Theaters to adapt it for the stage.

Kevin Gaughan

Gaughan wrote At First Light: Strengthening Buffalo Niagara in the New Century which was published by the Canisius College Press in 2003.

Konica Minolta Tower Centre

The restaurant was redesigned by Robin De Groot for the television program Restaurant Makeover, completely transforming the environment and menu to the delight of Niagara Falls.

Lewiston-Porter Central School District

Lew-Port competes in the NFL (Niagara Frontier League) with rival schools such as Niagara-Wheatfield, Niagara Falls, and Lockport.

Ni es lo mismo ni es igual

"El Niágara en Bicicleta" takes on the impossibility of obtaining medical treatment in a third world hospital, and compares it to crossing Niagara Falls on a bicycle.

Niagara College

The College has three campuses: the Welland Campus in Welland, the Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and the Maid of the Mist Campus in Niagara Falls which serves as a dedicated industry development and training resource for Niagara's hospitality and tourism sector.

Niagara Falls International Marathon

The Niagara Falls International Marathon passes a border control, while the mentioned European borders have no border control thanks to the Schengen Union.

Niagara Falls Transit

Coach Canada and Greyhound (intercity service to Canada & US destinations at Niagara Falls Coach Terminal)

Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority

Rural Niagara Transit operates out of its primary hub at Niagara County Community College and spreads throughout the Niagara County area with connections between buses at the college three times daily.

Niagara Parkway

When the First Welland Canal was opened in 1829, the Niagara Road became a towpath for vessels exiting the Welland River.

Niagara Scow

Since a rescue boat was out of the question, the Niagara Falls (Ontario) Fire Department tried using a grappling gun to shoot a life line out towards the barge, from atop the roof of the Toronto Power House while awaiting the arrival of the US Coast Guard from Youngstown, New York to bring a heavier grappling gun.

Normand MacLeod

In 1761 Macleod attended the Niagara Conference held between Sir William Johnson and Pontiac.

NYC Niagara

The New York Central Railroad's Niagara was a steam locomotive named after the Niagara River and Falls.

Paul Dyster

He is currently a Board Emeritus for the Buffalo-Niagara Riverkeeper and a spokesman for the Niagara River Environmenttal Coalition.

Petition of Free Negroes

Because the grants were spread around the province, isolating the freed men among the otherwise-white settlers, on June 29, 1794, nineteen men from the Niagara region submitted a petition to Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe hoping to address this.

Prince's Skating Club

It began playing challenge matches in early 1897, initially against the three existing teams in England: Niagara, Brighton and the Royal Engineers.

Robert O. Swados

Along with Seymour H. Knox III and Northrup R. Knox, he was a partner in Niagara Frontier Hockey, the original consortium that founded the Buffalo Sabres.

Roger Hale Sheaffe

Early on 13 October the Americans began crossing the Niagara at Queenston, a few miles south of Fort George.

Sky Wheel

Niagara SkyWheel, a Ferris wheel at Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Skylon Tower

Costing $7 million at the time of its construction, the Skylon Tower was owned by a private partnership called Niagara International Centre, which was financed by the The Hershey Company shareholdings of Charles Richard Reese, former co-owner of the H. B. Reese Candy Company of Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Slowly I Turned

Abbott and Costello performed the "Pokomoko" version in their 1944 film Lost in a Harem, and later did a "Niagara Falls" version for their early '50s television show.

Telecommunications in Canada

While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated in Canada during the technology's early years.

The Princess of Wales' Own Regiment

The Princess of Wales’ Own Regiment, became allied on 15 July 1926 with the South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’ Volunteers) who count among their Battle Honours Louisburg and Niagara.

Thomas Stockton

During the War of 1812 he was part of the attack on Fort George on the Niagara River and fought at Lundy's Lane.

Tom Froese

Froese was born in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, where his father Jake Froese would later serve as the town's mayor and as a federal Member of Parliament.

Wadsley Bridge

The Niagara ground is the present day venue of the South Yorkshire Police Sports and Social Club, opened by the Princess Royal on 23 August 1928.

Wheatfield, New York

John Wayne Bobbitt, graduated from Niagara Wheatfield Senior Highschool in 1985.

WHLD

Among them was a continuing program of classical piano duets played by Niagara Falls pianist Harold Bradley and his friend John Peirce Langs from Buffalo, NY.

William McRee

During the War of 1812, McRee was chief of artillery for the Northern Army then chief engineer for the Army of the Niagara Frontier.

Willoughby Township, Ontario

In 1970, most of the township merged with the city of Niagara Falls with the creation of the Regional Municipality of Niagara, ending county government in Niagara.


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