PORT COLBORNE WELLAND CANAL NIAGARA FALLS ONTARIO CANADA
The freighters at this canal will blow your mind as their 30,000-ton weight is lifted up and over the Niagara Escarpment. Originally developed in 1829 for the purpose of a safe detour for ships to go around Niagara Falls, the Welland Canal has a long and rich history to offer visitors to the area. With 27 miles of water, the canal has eight locks, the first seven being in the first 9 miles of the canal from Thorold and north. Locks, or sections of water that are closed off with gates, raise or lower vessels with the water levels. As the water flows downhill from Lake Erie toward Lake Ontario, the locks are filled and emptied. The Lock 3 Viewing Complex has an elevated area for easy viewing of the canal. Visit the Welland Canal, located 15 minutes from Niagara Falls and next to the St. Catharines Museum, and explore the system of locks for a fun and educational experience.
Niagara Falls is a set of massive waterfalls located on the Niagara River. Niagara Falls (French: les Chutes du Niagara) comprises three separate waterfalls: the Horseshoe Falls (sometimes called the Canadian Falls), the American Falls, and the smaller, adjacent Bridal Veil Falls. While not exceptionally high, Niagara Falls is very wide. With more than 6 million cubic feet (168,000 m³) of water falling over the crestline every minute it is the most powerful waterfall in North America. Wikipedia CC
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Amazing Facts About Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada
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Port Colborne is a small and very beautiful city, which is located I Lake Erie at sounthern end of Welland Canal in Niagara Region of the southern Ontario, Canada. Amazing Facts About Port Colborne, Ontario make Port Colborne an amazing tourist place in Ontario. According to Canadian census 2016, population of Port Colborne was around 18,306.
Original settlement in Port Colborne, is known as Gravelly Bay from 1832 and then was again renamed after Sir John Colborne, he was a British war hero and was Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada at time of opening of southern terminus of First Welland Canal in year 1833.
There are total 2 high schools in Port Colborne, the Lakeshore Catholic High School and Port Colborne High School. Lockview get closed in year 1987.
Port Colborne Historical and Marine Museum is located near centre of the town, it is a resource for archival research and local history.
In an addition to this, with a huge collection of artifacts and historic buildings, this opened “Marie Semley Research Wing” to foster research in the local history, and is named to commemorate long-standing efforts of local residents who devoted number of hours to museum.
Amazing Facts About Port Colborne, Ontario
1. Community in Port Colborne was first known as Sugarloaf and then later it was known as Gravelly Bay.
2. Present City of Port Colborne is an amalgamation of 2 municipalities, Humberstone and Port Colborn. Humberstone is older of these 2 and is north end of city, that centred around the Main Street.
3. Port Colborne is too much famous for its awesome location on Welland Canal of St. Lawrence Seaway, which makes Port Colborne Canada’s one of the largest inland Ports.
4. Sand Dunes of Sherkston served an important look out point for British Army during War of 1812.
5. Members of National Hockey League Bronco Horvath, , Harry Dick, Don Simmons, Scott Gruhl, Don Gallinger, and “Teeder” Kennedy all are from Port Colborne.
6. Francis Moore, in 1936 Winter Olympics, a goalie for Canada was only from Port Colborne. It is one of the Amazing Facts About Port Colborne, Ontario.
7. Port Colborne rocked a band “Ruckus”,that played on Jerry Lewis Telethon in mid-seventies.
8. Port Colborne is home to the original Dairy Queens.
9. Port Colborne was home to the one of the largest flourmills in British Empire.
10. Signature Event of Port Colborne is Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival, which is being held on August Civic long-weekend.
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PORT COLBORNE CANAL DAYS CH Morning Live July 30, 2019
CHCH Morning Live visited Port Colborne ON to learn all about the 41st Annual Canal Days happening August 2-5, 2019. For more information, visit canaldays.ca
Our Vacation in Port Colborne, Ontario
Cottage break in Lake Erie
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Carbohydrate Valley - City of Port Colborne
Winner of the SILVER Award from the International Economic Development Council. Take a look into Carbohydrate Valley in Port Colborne with Vance Badawey (Major, City of Port Colborne), For more information for on location shooting, production services, and webcasting, visit our website today! Click here:
Canada Sucks 150 Years by Niagara Region Police is Murderer at Port Colbonre سفرهای خلبان با دوچرخه
سرگرد نورحقیقی: استعمار انگلیسی ها در کانادا ننگ بشریت است؛
Summer 2014, Major Nourhaghighi Biking in Niagara Region
سرگرد نورحقیقی: فورت اری با دوچرخه تابستان ۱۹۹۳ و تهدید دو پاسبان گله پوک در ساعت ۲ بآمداد در تاریکی جاده کور؛
از پلیس کانادا به مافیا باید پناه برد
On July 18, at 2 AM two male POLICE Constables with Unmarked car & with no good reason stopped me in a very dark road after I left Port Colborne and one of them who was Dickhead Idiot white FAT Canadian seriously harassed me by wearing his gloves to torture me; but his colleague read some information about me on his computer and said very fast something to Idiot that in sudden .
he let me go; while I was nervous losing all my energy
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Taste of Port Colborne - Restaurant Week Oct. 17-27
October is Small Business Month and we're encouraging you to supPORT local by getting a 'Taste of Port Colborne' during Restaurant Week, October 17-27. Visit our PORTicipating restaurants from Downtown Port Colborne and Port Colborne Main Street BIA including: The Canalside, The Lock Wood Fired Pizza, The Green Apple Coffee House, The Belmont, Flying Squirrel Bistro inc., San Marcos Ristorante, Breakwall Brewing Company, La Dolce Vita Bakery, The Spot Bar & Grill, The Saucy Pot Soup Store, and more! For more information, including set menus and pricing, visit
666 Pleasant Beach Road, Port Colborne, Niagara Region
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Port Colborne Niagara Regional Police should lead by example
Jan 18, 2018 3:38pm Westside Mall - Dollarama
Niagara Regional Police should lead by example.
Definition of Lead by Example
-By walking your talk, you become a person others want to follow. When leaders say one thing, but do another, they erode trust--a critical element of productive leadership.
Tribute to the NS&T- Final Run March 28th 1959
**PLEASE NOTE** At 5:25, when I say Trolley Pole, I mean the pole stuck in the ground that held the overhead wires
This is a small tribute to the NS&T (Niagara Falls, St. Catharines, and Toronto Railway). A part of history that shaped St. Catharines between 1888 and 1959. It is sometimes known as The Little System That Could, because it survived a lot longer than even the railway itself thought. The
closure of the Lakeside Park amusement park was surely to be the demise of the NS&T, but it hung on for a lot longer. March 28th 1959 saw the end of the system. Cars 83 (seen several times in the video) and 620 (similar to car 623) were assigned to the final charter along the Port. Colborne-St.
Catharines line, carrying employees and NS&T fans for one final time. In the present day video I took, I pan around the direction the cars travelled on their final run. Across Pine St, and around the bend into St. Catharines. They would end up at the NS&T terminal at the corner of Welland Ave, and Geneva St, now a plaza. There is only one remaining streetcar, number 621, stored in Kenabunkport, ME at the Seashore Trolley Museum. It is no longer in NS&T colors, but still bears a decal showing off it's proud origin. 2 freight locomotives run there as well, and hold the only evidence of a strong railine that has disappeared from the city almost completely.
With enough votes, the remaining trackage can be declared a historic site, and we will at least have that to remind us of The Little System That Could.
I may also produce a book with information from my grandfather, depending on how popular that would be amongst historians...
Pictures taken from:
-Niagara Railway Museum ©
-Google Images
-NIAGARA, ST CATHARINES & TORONTO RAILWAY, by John M. Mills.
All rights reserved.
Canal Days at the Port Colborne Historical & Marine Museum
Be sure to visit the Port Colborne Historical & Marine Museum, where Canal Days began in 1979! FREE admission, sponsored by Arabella's Tea Room. More than a museum, it's your destination for marine displays, railway, airplane and ship models! Music by Finnegan's Wake, peformances by Tara's School of Highland Dance, a Kid's Zone, official Canal Days t-shirts for sale and more! Don't forget about the auction too for a one week, all inclusive trip for two aboard a working laker on the Great Lakes, donated by Lower Lakes Towing LTD.
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St. Catharines, Ontario: Driving Around Downtown In 2017
A POV video, driving around the downtown area of St. Catharines, Ontario. Not the smoothest route, as you'll see, due to road closing construction on St. Paul Street.
St. Catherines is a city in Ontario, Canada, 56 kilometres east of Hamilton and 51 KM south of Toronto, direct line across Lake Ontario. The United States border (New York) is just 19 KM away and tourist trap Niagara Falls is 22 KM to the southeast.
The population of St. Catharines is around 133,000, a number that has remained steady since 1990. In the metro area, there are 400,000 inhabitants. Known as the 'Garden City', the area was first settled in 1783, was incorporated as a town in 1845 and as a city in 1876.
St. Catharines is home to Brock University, a school that was founded in 1964. The Welland Canal has four locks withing the city. The Meridian Centre is a new venue that can be seen at the end of the video. The arena is home to the Niagara IceDogs of the Ontario Hockey League and holds 5,300 for hockey.
The city is the birthplace of Hockey Hall of Fame goalie Gerry Cheevers. Cheevers played his entire NHL career with the Boston Bruins with a four year stint in between in the World Hockey Association (WHA) with the Cleveland Crusaders.
Welcome to Port Rowan
A selection of images of Port Rowan and Long Point Bay. Visit for more information about Norfolk County.
Norfolk County's library of video footage is available for media outlets to use free of charge, with permission from Norfolk County Tourism. Contact tourism@norfolkcounty.ca or 519-426-9497.
#DockTalk - Season 2, Episode 7 - Boat Wake
On this #NoWakeWednesday we partnered with the experts from the Niagara Regional Police Service Marine & Dive Unit as well as Port Colborne Marine Auxiliary Rescue ~POCOMAR~ to present to you a new #DockTalk all about wakes in and around the Sugarloaf Harbour!
Stay safe this summer boaters and be aware of your boat wake!
CANADA WALK PORT COLBORNE JUN 28 2002
3rd CAMPAIGN
CANADA 769 DAY WALK
June 20, 2000 August 9, 2002
This was Step By Step 3rd Campaign, the Canada 769 Day Walk. Liver Transplant Recipient George Marcello continued his journey of addressing Canadas organ & tissue shortage. He carried an Olympic style Torch called the Torch Of Life in memory of Victor Davis. His goal was to wake up Canada by inspiring the media, public & 3 levels of Government. Mr. Marcello continued to conduct thousands of consultations and gathered invaluable information that expanded and confirmed his previous campaign, the Ontario Walk.
Pope John Paul 2 asked George to join him at Vatican City. On September 5 2001, his holiness blessed the Torch and proclaimed to the world, that organ & tissue donations, is a Genuine Act of Love. He also urged George to pass the Torch to the Youth, who would eventually become the voice of Step By Step.
CANADA 769 DAY WALK BEGINS
Torch of Life is born
June 20 2000: Toronto Canada
Step By Step launched the Canada 769 Day Walk. We started at Danforth Collegiate Technical Institute that morning and made our way to Queens Park. After getting blessed by Ontario Parliament we made our way to Toronto City Hall. It started as the Canada 500 Day Walk; it soon became the Canada 600 Day Walk, only to eventually become the Canada 769 Day Walk. During the period before our Kickoff, the Step-By-Step team was working around the clock to raise $750,000.oo to meet the budget for the entire Walk Campaign. Things looked very optimistic, several large corporations made promises; government grants seemed attainable, especially after the positive impact and recognition Step By Step received by the entire Province of Ontario. On kickoff day, we had exciting activities planned throughout the city of Toronto. This including stops at the City Hall, Parliament Building, and different ethnic neighborhoods. All the media outlets were covering our activities, along with notable Politicians, celebrities, athletes, and many people. Everyone showed up enthusiastically, except for the people who were going to present the cheques. It seemed like we had all the eggs in one basket and the basket didnt appear. The Step-By-Step team was devastated. With no foreseeable funds coming in and with only $5,000.00 in our budget, everyone panicked and collapsed and the majority of people resigned. The dream that had so much hope, so much glory, was turning into a nightmare on Day 1. During the campaign leading up to the kickoff, over 90 cities and towns on the Canada 769 Day Walk schedule had worked very hard preparing activities and were very excited to have Step By Step visit them. George was prepared not to let them down; he was not going to let his mom down, and all those people who still believed in the dream. With a dismal budget of $5,000.oo, a borrowed vehicle and no permanent road crew, George marched on under the divine inspiration of Whitney Houstons song Step By Step.
Torch Of Life gets lit
It was here that the Torch of Life was officially lit by Mayor Mel Davis. He then passed the Torch to a Donor family member who then passed it onto a person waiting for an organ transplant. That day Step By Step had a mere $6000.00 in the budget. We organized 500 communities and over 100,000 individuals to participate in over 4,000 events. In every community we coordinated activities with the media, members from all 3 levels o9f government, schools, churches, malls, festivals, service clubs, cultural groups, sports events, army - police - firefighters - and ambulance forces. We invited people from all walks of life and different agencies and organizations. We conducted over 1000 press conferences and consultations. Discussions, debates, and workshops became a daily activity. We had no permanent road team. We had to recruit road team members 27 times during this campaign. I suffered physically with e-coli, influenza, infections, and something new hypothermia. I was stalked by a cougar and came face to face with a black bear. Dogs would chase me once a week. I felt the roar of many transport trucks in 9 different seasons on many roads and highways. I wanted to give up 113 times. On the road we would beg for food and shelter. We distributed hundreds of thousands of donor cards. We met and inspired health officials in each province. Our goal was to wake up Canada.
WHERE AM I? Kingston, Ontario
Two travellers, one adventure and a passionately Canadian destination. On the picturesque shores of the St. Lawrence River lies the historic city of Kingston. Home to impassioned curators and creators, a place that embraces new ideas – it’s authentic, vibrant and never stops surprising. Kingston boasts more restaurants per capita than nearly any city in Canada, so make sure to come hungry. With an abundance of casual outdoor patios, fine dining restaurants, and pubs – you’ll find something delicious at every turn. The fun doesn’t slow down at night with a vibrant theatre, arts, and events scene.
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Port Colborne Public Library Year in Review!
A review of 2017 and what to look forward to in 2018 at YOUR Library! For more information, visit
Places to visit Welland Ontario
Welland is a city in the Regional Municipality of Niagara in Southern Ontario, Canada. The city is in the centre of Niagara. Within a half-hour, residents can travel to Niagara Falls, Niagara-On-The-Lake, St. Catharines and Port Colborne.