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

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Oates House

This circa 1900 photograph of the Oates House (or Captain's House) on Front Street (across from Queen's Royal Park) shows three children and a donkey...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Black Swamp Road

This interesting photo illustrates how much our community has grown over the years. This Virgil photo is looking east down Field Road. The home...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Former St. Davids school

It's back to school for the kiddos this week — some virtually and some in person. Here’s an early photograph of the former St. Davids school...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: St. Davids fire hall

This 1944 photograph shows the Niagara Township Council and fire department officials seated out front of the former fire hall in St. Davids. The...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Chief Justice Robinson

This watercolour depicts the ship called the Chief Justice Robinson. It was built in 1842 as a wooden side-wheel steamboat by the Niagara Harbour and...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Election time at Stagecoach

Like it or not, it's election time again. It's hard to believe this image is real as it shows the Conservative and Liberal parties sharing a...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Evans candy shop

Here’s a photograph, c.1900, of the Evans Ice Cream and Candy Store. The people at the front are most likely, from left, Mrs. Clara Parker,...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Post office circa 1900s

Recognize this building? It was previously the Niagara-on-the-Lake Post Office during the early 1900s. The man standing outside is likely the postmaster, Joseph Healey,...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: The end of the Chautauqua Hotel

Further to last week’s photo on the Niagara Assembly establishing a Chautauqua movement in Niagara-on-the-Lake, here is an image of the three-storey Chautauqua Hotel. The Chautauqua...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Chautauqua beginnings

The Niagara Assembly established a Chautauqua movement on a 92-acre lot along Lake Ontario in Niagara-on-the-Lake in the mid-1880s. The movement was a semi-religious...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Parliament Oak opens, 1948

This image of Parliament Oak school was taken from the corner of King and Centre streets on Sept. 12, 1948. It was the official opening...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Canning at the Harrison’s

With the start of the fruit season, many of you might be getting to work on your homemade jams and canning all the fruits...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Wampum beads

June is national Indigenous History Month and in recognition of that here is an image of a collection of wampum beads at the NOTL...

Exploring Photos with the NOTL Museum: Niagara Volunteers circa 1866

Here’s an image of a few Niagara Volunteers on active service in Fort Erie during the Fenian Raids of 1866. Former curator Janet Carnochan...

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