Exploring photos with the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum. Archives

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Fog Hill Below Mississauga Point, 1886

This is an interesting landscape watercolour of the "Fog Bell," below Mississauga Point, showing the wooden "groyne" (breakwater) on the right that was constructed to prevent...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Bainsbrigge visits Queenston

The NOTL Museum has a wonderful art collection depicting the community of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Here is a watercolour of the Queenston Heights landscape and a...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Harrison & Sons Hardware Store

Being stuck at home during the pandemic has motivated many of us to renovate our living spaces. Several decades ago, many would have visited...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Chris Allen’s mask

Many of us enjoy the Christmas shows that the Shaw Festival is back presenting this year. The Courthouse Players, the forerunner to our beloved Shaw...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Queenston Heights engraving

This engraving of Queenston Heights was completed by J.C. Armitage from an 1838 W. H. Bartlett sketch. It is a beautiful view of Queenston...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Queen’s Royal Hotel

Opening in 1869, the Royal Niagara, as it was first called, was built with money received from the county after the relocation of the...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Tennis at Queen’s Royal

Many of you are still trying to fit in a few more rounds of tennis or golf before the snow starts to really fall....

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Armistice celebration

Hostilities of the First World War ended on Nov. 11, 1918, at the 11th hour. A war that was thought to only take months to conclude...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: The old rifle range

This Second World War photograph shows soldiers training at Niagara Camp’s rifle range. The grounds were located along Lakeshore Road, just west of Shakespeare...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Dock area

This photograph is similar to the one you saw last week. However, this one is farther back and is possibly taken from the 75-foot chimney...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: The American Hotel

Recognize this spot? This photograph is looking from the Niagara-on-the-Lake Sailing Club property toward Melville Street (the street running along the middle of the photo)....

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Battle of Queenston Heights

October 13 is the 209th anniversary of the War of 1812’s Battle of Queenston Heights. This 1871 photograph shows war veterans, with young family members,...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Niagara River circa 1915

This circa 1915 photograph shows the Niagara River, looking north toward Lake Ontario, with the village of Queenston just left of centre. The suspension bridge can...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Residential school in James Bay

This photo shows a building from the residential school in Moose Factory on the shore of James Bay in Northern Ontario. It was donated in...

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