This week’s photo for Exploring History is a glass lantern slide that features a single horse-drawn cart riding the beach surf along Lake Ontario.

In these blueprint plans from the mid-19th century, the NOTL Museum focuses on the area where the Niagara Harbour and Dock Company buildings and the businesses that supported them were located.

The total cost to build the Wellington Street hospital, including new equipment, was $222,943,82. A majority of the revenue came from community donations.

“As you start this new chapter, your parents are starting a new one, too. If they want to take a cheesy photo of you with a wooden chalkboard documenting your annual life decisions, let them,” writes the NOTL Museum.