Happy Valentine’s Day. Enjoy the beautiful handmade lace valentine above from 1845. And for your reading pleasure, a Valentine’s Day poem from the collection that was written circa 1832 from John Blake to

In 2023, we commemorated the 230th anniversary of the 1793 Act to Limit Slavery and the Chloe Cooley incident with an exhibition titled, “Bound and Determined.” We also hosted the first annual event

The Whale Inn, shown in this 1960 photograph (before its restoration), was built in 1835 to cater to sailors and merchants arriving at the Melville Street harbour. The Whale Inn is also known

This photo postcard shows Lake Ontario from Chautauqua at One Mile Creek. The wooden stakes leading into the water were the remnants of the former steamship docks that were located there. Built on

Here is the 1911-1912 class standing out front of the Railroad School at 1416 Line 3 Rd. The teacher behind the students is Elizabeth Dornan Ferguson. This was the new school built after

This 1870 view of the south side of Queen Street shows, from right: John Lees Alma’s upscale grocery and wine store, originally built in 1825 for dry goods merchant John Daly; an early

This photograph shows the popular heritage district intersection before the beloved cenotaph was installed. The store to the left is Connolly’s. The signage indicates that it was for jewellery and watch repairs, but

Charlotte was the daughter of an Irish fur trader and an Ojibwe woman from Sault Ste. Marie. As a young woman, she became an interpreter for missionaries and helped translate Christian sermons into

Beginning in September 1917, camps were organized on the Niagara Commons to provide two months of training for Polish volunteers recruited in the United States. The objective was to prepare them for a

The adoption of the poppy was due, in no small part, to Lt.-Gov. John McCrae’s famous 1915 poem “In Flanders Fields.” After reading the poem in a magazine in 1918, American teacher Moina

This photograph is captioned with “Solid Comfort: Lieutenant Cochrane after a busy day.” It shows the interior of a canvas tent that the officers and soldiers would have lived under during their training

This postcard features the former Queen’s Royal Hotel, which was located along Front Street in Old Town. Today in this area, there are homes and a wonderful park, appropriately named Queen’s Royal Park.

This engraving by T. Sutherland, circa 1880, shows American troops (blue uniforms) crossing the Niagara River at Queenston to fight the British (red uniforms) in October 1812. The Battle of Queenston Heights was

As we celebrate the harvest and give thanks for all that we have, here is a photo of Richard Livingstone ploughing with his horses in Homer, circa 1912 to 1920. In Niagara-on-the-Lake, we

Commercial fruit growing started in Niagara between 1825 and 1830 when John Durham set out a large peach orchard on the River Road near Queenston, also known as the Fisher Farm. The first

This is an 1870 sketch of the Navy Hall Inn and Tavern and the Ferry House, which was formerly located near where Navy Hall is today, Ricardo Street, along the river. Note the

The white building pictured here is the early St. Davids school house, which was located on York Road where the United Church and cemetery are today. It was built after the War of

This is a lithograph by D.L. Glover from an original painting by Ferdinand Richards. The suspension bridge opened in 1855 and was the world’s first working railway suspension bridge connecting Niagara Falls, Ont.,

It’s back to school time again for Niagara-on-the-Lake students. Here’s a photograph of students in front of the former kindergarten room at 267 Davey St. Kindergarten started in Canada in 1882 and was

Many parts of Canada have been ravaged by wildfires and the tragic news coming from Hawaii is devastating. In honour of the firefighters battling the impossible both near and far, most notably our