Archives: Destinations

Point Abino is a wooded headland jutting into Lake Erie west of Crystal Beach, long home to an exclusive colony of summer…

Bridgeburg is a historic district in the north end of Fort Erie that grew up around the International Railway Bridge after its…

Stevensville is a small, historically agricultural village in Fort Erie’s rural interior, set along Black Creek several kilometres north of Lake Erie.…

Ridgeway is a small unincorporated village named for the limestone ridge its main street follows, which grew from a late-18th-century Loyalist farming…

Crystal Beach is a lakefront resort community on the northeast shore of Lake Erie, directly across the water from Buffalo, and took…

Crowland is a historic former township, organized in 1788 and named after a town in Lincolnshire, England, that was amalgamated into the…

Cooks Mills is a rural community in Welland’s far east end, strung along Lyons Creek, that predates downtown Welland by roughly half…

Dain City occupies the southern tip of Welland, nearly encircled by the old and new Welland Canal channels after the 1970s bypass…

Western Hill is an established residential neighbourhood on the rising ground west of downtown St. Catharines, across the Twelve Mile Creek valley.…

Grantham takes its name from the original Grantham Township, one of the Niagara Peninsula’s first surveyed townships, settled by Butler’s Rangers and…