This is a wonderful print by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854) of the lower Niagara River. The perspective is likely from south of Lewiston, N.Y., and shows people exploring the banks of the river

This Queen Street building, built in the circa 1880s, was home to the Bell Telephone Exchange for many years. The first operators hired were young men who had worked in telegraph offices, but

This image is of St. Davids from around the 1930s. It features the Jerman’s Service Station and refreshment stand that operated at the corner of Four Mile Creek Road and York Road. Former

This circa 1920s photograph is of two local fishermen, William Ball and Jim “Pud” Patterson, with a young child and a sturgeon caught in the Niagara River. Lake Sturgeon are native to the

In honour of this month, here’s a photograph from the Second World War of the Newark chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE). These hard-working women held weekly

Vintage Inns recently won a Biennial Design award for the Gardens at the Pillar and Post. This week’s aerial photo is a “before” image for that same block of land, showing the C&C

John Waters was one of the most successful Black men to live in Niagara-on-the-Lake. He was a successful farmer but was also a local businessman who had tavern and grocery businesses and also

Following up on last week’s image about the new Canadian stamp featuring Chloe Cooley, here is a newspaper advertisement for a runaway in 1795. Although the 1793 Act to Limit Slavery was the

Staff at the NOTL Museum were happy to consult on the development of Canada Post’s latest stamp, which features a local historical figure, drawing attention to her harrowing story. Chloe Cooley was enslaved

RJR Pottery was produced in Niagara-on-the-Lake between 1950 and 1964 as a hobby and was mainly sold to friends. Each piece was a one-of-a-kind. The founding members were three close friends who used

An important early watercolour in the NOTL Museum is a “View of Fort Niagara” by Anglo-Canadian artist John Herbert Caddy (1801-1883).  Born to a military family posted at Quebec City, Caddy enrolled as

This photograph features David Seitz and Bill O’Brien peeling potatoes for the troops at Niagara Camp here in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Here I thought peeling potatoes for my Irish brood was exhausting. Imagine peeling potatoes

I have not seen a photograph like this one before and I was surprised when I realized it was actually a Queen Street building. Can you pick it out without driving by or

Here is beautiful pencil drawing, coloured with watercolour, that was created by a fomer local artist Francis H. Granger. It portrays the foot of King Street in 1856. The buildings in the drawing

This week’s photo is a portrait of Lt. William J. Wright, a former principal of the Niagara High School (now the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum building). Wright felt a strong duty to enlist and he

While training at Niagara Camp, soldiers practised digging trenches. There were newspaper reports of intact trenches being maintained on the Mississauga Commons. The training site was equipped with sandbags, barbed wire, support trenches