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The Niagara Scow View of the Toronto Power House with the scow in the background, 1922. The Niagara Scow (also called the Old Scow or Iron Scow) is the unofficial name of the wreck of a small scow that brought two men perilously close to plunging over the Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the Niagara Falls, in 1918. The wreck can still be seen ...
[2] [5] The vacant plant was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1983, due to its importance in the development of business, industry and technology in Ontario, its status as the first wholly Canadian-owned hydro-electric facility at Niagara Falls, and the unusual application of Beaux-Arts design to an industrial plant. [1] [6]
Thousands of people have gone over Niagara Falls, either intentionally (as stunts or suicide attempts) or accidentally. The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was school teacher Annie Edson Taylor, who in 1901 successfully completed the stunt inside an oak barrel. In the following 124 years, thousands of people have been ...
Generating station, 1919 Ontario Power Company Generating Station. A similar set of events were happening on the Canadian side of the falls. In June 1887, recognizing an opportunity, the Ontario Power Company of Niagara Falls was incorporated in Canada “to supply manufacturers, corporations, and persons with water, hydraulic, electric or other power.”
Kinfolk MC (Canada) - Part of Kinfolk MC International, has 5 chapter throughout Canada [209] Kings Crew Motorcycle Club – one of the dominant motorcycle clubs in Alberta during the 1980s and early 1990s, merged with the Hells Angels in late 1990's. [210] Lobos Motorcycle Club – Merged with the Hells Angels in 2001 [211]
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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]
The U.S. Brig Niagara enters Presque Isle Bay from Lake Erie to lead the Parade of Sail, kicking off Tall Ships Erie 2022 in this file photo. With the Brig Niagara out for repairs in the summer of ...