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Desjardins Canal. The Desjardins Canal, named after its promoter Pierre Desjardins, was a canal in Ontario, Canada.It was built to give the town of Dundas easier access to Lake Ontario and the Great Lakes system of North America.
The Regional Municipality of Niagara, also colloquially known as the Niagara Region or Region of Niagara, is a regional municipality comprising twelve municipalities of Southern Ontario, Canada. The regional seat is in Thorold. It is the southern end of the Golden Horseshoe, the largest megalopolis in Canada.
It was built in for the Canadian Niagara Power Company and named for company's founder William Birch Rankine (b. 1858), a New York City (and later of Niagara Falls) lawyer originally from Geneva, New York who died three days after (in Grafton, New Hampshire) the station opened in 1905 and renamed in 1927. [1]
Niagara-on-the-Lake is in the Niagara Region of Ontario and is the only town in Canada that has a lord mayor. [3] It had a population of 19,088 as of the 2021 Canadian census. Niagara-on-the-Lake is important in the history of Canada: it served as the first capital of the province of Upper Canada, the predecessor of Ontario. It was called ...
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.
New York's expanding influence on Lake Ontario approved of, though building Niagara fort needs "consent of the Indian Proprietors" [9] Though "flourishing state of" Canso fishery would draw settlers, survey delay prevents Nova Scotia governor from granting land [10]
A new riding of Niagara Centre was created before the 1999 election from small parts of the Lincoln and St. Catharines—Brock ridings, and almost all of the Welland—Thorold riding. The current electoral district was created in 2003: 74.9% of the riding came from Niagara Centre riding, 22.5% from Erie—Lincoln and 2.7% from Niagara Falls riding.
The hotel was built by Niagara Falls businessman Frank A. Dudley and operated by the United Hotels Company. [2] The 12 story, steel frame and concrete hotel was designed by prominent Buffalo architects Esenwein and Johnson and was built in 1924 (cornerstone laid on March 24, 1924).