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Exploring Photos: Riley Family Homestead

Aug. 1 marked Emancipation Day in Canada, the day on which the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act came into effect. This year it coincided with Simcoe Day in Ontario, a day named in honour of

Exploring Photos: Peach graders, 1948

Peach season has arrived! This sketch by John D. Shawe features fruit growers from 1948 preparing the peach harvest for market. Peaches were shipped from NOTL’s docks to Toronto on the Canada Steamship

Museum lecture explores Indigenous connection to Niagara River

Indigenous Peoples’ relationship with the Niagara River – its significance, influence and history – will be the focus of an in-person lecture at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum on Thursday, July 21. Travis Hill, of

Exploring Photos: Paradise Grove Ferry – The Albino

The Niagara wharf and marina was used by more than just the Canada Steamship Lines passenger ships. Locals were very enterprising when it came to profiting from the thousands of visitors to Niagara-on-the-Lake

Exploring Photos: Diving in the Niagara River, circa 1950

This new addition to the NOTL Museum’s photographic collection shows a diver near the mouth of the Niagara River in the 1950s. The apparatus on his head is known as a diving bell

Exploring Photos: ‘A Birds Eye View’

This bookplate is titled, “A Birds Eye View or Map of the Country from Lake Erie to Queenston. Exhibiting the Chasm formed by the Retrograde Movement of the Falls of Niagara.” It was

Exploring Photos: Thayendanega-Rousseaux powder horn

June 21 was National Indigenous Peoples Day and this week we are featuring an artifact from our collection. This powder horn is beautifully decorated with birds, leaves, plants and animals. The leaves and

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: The Negro Burial Ground 1831-1878

This week’s image is not one from our collection. Unfortunately, there are no images of the former Baptist Church nor the cemetery during its existence. The church was established through community support by

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Memorial clock tower 100th anniversary

This photograph shows the memorial clock tower in the 1920s with a perspective looking toward King Street. Note the rail crossing sign on the left for the railway that went along King Street. The memorial clock

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Battle of Fort George, May 27, 1813

This watercolour depicts the War of 1812’s Battle of Fort George on May 27, 1813. It is a view toward the mouth of the Niagara River from Lake Ontario, with Fort Niagara to the

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: The village of Queenston

This circa 1903 photograph of Queenston looks south down Queenston Street. The South Landing Inn, on Front Street, is just left of centre in the far distance (not the buildings in the immediate

Walking into history: Museum’s treks return for summer

The Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum’s popular Historic District walking tours are returning. The guided walks will take place every Saturday and Sunday from June to September, starting the weekend of June 4. The tours begin

Museum’s latest exhibition explores waterfront history

Barbara Worthy NOTL Museum For thousands of years Niagara’s waterfront has been a witness to a changing world. Traditional hunting and gatherings, warring nations, settlers and refugees, traders, tourists, and pleasure seekers have

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Queenston Heights “Port Folio”

This print is from the American magazine “Port Folio,” published in Philadelphia 1809-1827. The magazine included engravings and aquaprints that are among some of the earliest images of North American that were available to the

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Niagara Wharf, 1935

This 1935 photograph was taken from the balcony of the King George III Inn (later the American Hotel) at 61 Melville St. It shows how busy the Niagara Wharf at the marina was with

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Fort George golf course, 1902

Many of you are itching to get out on the golf course now if you haven’t already. Here is a 1902 plan of the former Fort George golf course on the Niagara Commons.

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: The Ing family home and business

Besides this being their family home, the Ing family operated a laundry service out of the basement and also sold tickets for the Niagara streetcar here. Today, you can head into this building and

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: The Bicycle Gymkhana

As spring is slowly making its way here there are more and more cyclists on the roads. Today we feature the prize winners, c.1900, of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s own Bicycle Gymkhana. Cyclists from all parts of

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Brownies on parade for Royal visit

Girl Guide cookies will be on sale in April, so make sure to pick up a box and support our local unit. Here’s a photo of our 1939 Brownies unit marching down King Street

Museum lecture explores the Shaw at 60

DECK — Virtual presentation features conversation with Leonard Conolly and Barbara Worthy The next virtual lecture hosted by the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum brings together the “academic and the actress.” The Shaw’s resident scholar and literary

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: The Pumphouse

The 1891 Pumphouse on Ricardo Street, shown on the right of this c.1904 photograph, is a fine example of industrial architecture in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Built during the late 19th- and early 20th-century boom period,

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Red brick home

This watercolour was painted by landscape artist George R. Bruenech. It features a red brick home with a figure of a woman seated on the porch. The house was formerly located in the

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Sally Carter and the Moseby affair of 1837

Many local history enthusiasts are familiar with the Moseby affair of 1837. However, few may know the story of Sally Carter. She helped to organize 200 to 300 supporters from Niagara’s Black community

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Laura Secord School, 1921

Here is a 1921 photograph of the Laura Secord school in Queenston. The Niagara Township had 11 school sections and Queenston’s school was known as SS#4 since 1842. This red brick building replaced

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: The Spalding Trophy

Are you ready for some football? Well, the Buffalo Bills aren’t playing in the Super Bowl this weekend, so no. However, if you’re referring to what we like to call soccer and the Canadian

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