The last word in our four-part saga of the Foam goes to the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, one of North America’s most respected sailing and yachting organizations. It was from the club’s sheltered harbour
On Saturday, July 11, 1874, the sloop Foam, with seven sailors aboard
This is the first in a series of stories about the sinking of the Foam, one of the worst tragedies in Lake Ontario maritime history. The incident is shrouded in mystery and many fundamental questions remain impossible to answer.
After two years of uncertainty, the festival's braintrust can heave a sigh of relief When the Shaw Festival announced next year’s 60th anniversary season a few weeks ago, you could almost hear a
Renowned polio fighter speaks virtually to 60 district Rotary clubs When Syme Jago spoke to the Niagara-on-the-Lake Rotary Club last year about her decades-long personal fight against post-polio syndrome, the 76 local members
If Bill French has his way, the Niagara-on-the-Lake Rotary Club, with help from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will contribute a total of $60,000 to help finally eradicate polio around the world.
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To hear Scott MacSween tell it, his family’s 250-acre tender fruit business is founded on serendipity, a lucky moment in time when things just turned the right way for him and his soon-to-be-wife,
It was probably Plato who coined the phrase: “Necessity is the mother of invention.” But as we crawl our way out of the pandemic, Shaw Festival executive director Tim Jennings could very well have said
Debi Goodwin's love for digging in the dirt was cultivated on her family's fruit farm It was Audrey Hepburn who once said: “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” It is also
Storyteller, volunteer, athlete, family man and a proud Canadian turns 94 Almost everyone around here knows Doug Garrett as a dedicated sportsman, one of the finest golfers to ever challenge the town’s historic golf links.
Keeping Niagara families and farmers on the move for over 50 years
Even at almost 88 years of age, Barbara Ahluwalia has not lost a step in her commitment to the town she first saw 54 years ago this coming November, when she and her
Retailers are innovating and adapting as pandemic rolls on A year into the COVID pandemic, some NOTL businesses are doing just fine, thank you, while others are just trying to hold on. The businesses
How NOTL's Tim Taylor adapted his Santa persona for the virtual world to raise money for palliative care This story is a very personal tale. It is also the story of how a small
After 11 months knocking about rural Costa Rica waiting for COVID restrictions to ease, Niagara-on-the-Lake native Tristan Ibbotson is back in town, once again working a few restaurant shifts at the historic town
Heddle Shipyards, operators of the Port Weller Drydocks, has signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement to fabricate components for three ships now under construction at a British Columbia shipyard. “This is a great day
Bloom & Co. is about more than just the popular NOTL ball cap. But that is a huge seller Two Niagara entrepreneurs have proven that one-plus-one can make three. Kalin Falconer and Nataschia Wielink,
In 1987, the Niagara on the Lake Legion, Branch 124, interviewed and recorded more than 150 life and service vignettes of its members, saving their memories for posterity, on now-antiquated cassette tapes, labelled
Over the years, Allan Howse has been a frequent president of Branch 124 of the Royal Canadian Legion, and the self-avowed nurturer of what’s come to be known as the Memory Project. Originally
With the precision of a military campaign, the Poppy Committee of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 124 in Niagara-on-the-Lake has planned the pre-Remembrance Day distribution of the ubiquitous red flowers. The poppies will be available starting this
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The executive director and CEO of the Shaw Festival has had a challenging five years in the job. He has helped lead the transformation of the festival’s performance vision, its return to fiscal
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The newest fundraising effort by Nyanyas of Niagara has a satisfying “what-goes-around-comes around” feeling. Across Canada, hundreds of Nyanyas groups (Nyanya means grandmother in Swahili) have raised over $33 million for the Stephen
On Sept. 23, officially designated by the town as Newark Neighbours Day, a handful of concerned residents and an army of donors collected a ton of food and more than $3,200 in cash donations, for the
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Shaw Festival to cancel “A Christmas Carol,” the last remaining show on its 2020 calendar. The Christmas classic was originally scheduled to run in November and December at the Royal
There aren’t many local pies that Dr. Joseph Pohorly didn’t have his fingers in. Pohorly, who died peacefully this past week at age 88, was a teacher, professional engineer, grape and tenderfruit grower,
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