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Ontario: Niagara Falls Curling Club, Niagara Falls: Round robin standings ... Gionest / Desjardins: 9: Thornborough / Larence 2 Gionest / Desjardins: 10: Barber / Heidt 8
Railways came on stream rapidly during the mid-1850s but the one that had the most impact on Dundas and the Desjardins Canal was the Great Western Railway connecting Niagara Falls and Windsor through Hamilton, Dundas and London. This development was good news for the province as a whole but, as the lines serviced areas on which the Desjardins ...
Niagara Falls is a city in Ontario, Canada, adjacent to, and named after, Niagara Falls.As of the 2021 census, [4] the city had a population of 94,415. The city is located on the Niagara Peninsula along the western bank of the Niagara River, which forms part of the Canada–United States border, with the other side being the twin city of Niagara Falls, New York.
The Desjardins Canal disaster was a rail transport disaster near Hamilton, Canada West. The train wreck occurred at 6:15 p.m. on March 12, 1857 ( 1857-03-12 ) when a train on the Great Western Railway crashed through a bridge over the Desjardins Canal , causing the train and its passengers to fall 18 metres (60 ft) into the ice below. [ 1 ]
Meridian is the second largest credit union in Canada, and the largest credit union in Ontario, with more than 365,000 members with total assets under administration of over $28.5 billion. [4] Meridian offers banking, wealth management, credit products and services through 89 branches, and fifteen Commercial Business Centres.
Clifton Hill is one of the major tourist promenades in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The street, close to Niagara Falls and the Niagara River, leads from River Road on the Niagara Parkway to intersect with Victoria Avenue, and contains a number of gift shops, wax museums, haunted houses, video arcades, restaurants, hotels and themed attractions. It ...
Niagara Falls is 27 km (17 mi) northwest of Buffalo, New York, and 69 km (43 mi) southeast of Toronto, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York. Niagara Falls was formed when glaciers receded at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation (the last ice age ), and water from the newly formed Great Lakes carved a ...
The Welland Canal was created to directly link Lake Erie with Lake Ontario, bypassing Niagara Falls and the Erie Canal. It was the idea of William Hamilton Merritt who owned a sawmill, grist mill and store on the Twelve Mile Creek. The Legislature authorised the joint-stock Welland Canal Company on 19 January 1824, with a capitalisation of ...