Archives: Destinations

  • Merritton

    Merritton

    Merritton grew up along the steep Niagara Escarpment climb of the Welland Canal, where abundant water power made it one of the…

  • Port Dalhousie

    Port Dalhousie

    Port Dalhousie is a historic lakeside community on the Lake Ontario shore in the northwest of St. Catharines, built up around the…

  • Glendale

    Glendale

    Glendale is the modern gateway district on the western edge of Niagara-on-the-Lake, clustered around the Queen Elizabeth Way and Glendale Avenue interchange.…

  • Virgil

    Virgil

    Virgil lies along Four Mile Creek just southwest of Old Town and began as a United Empire Loyalist settlement known as The…

  • St. Davids

    St. Davids

    St. Davids sits sheltered at the base of the Niagara Escarpment in the southwest of the municipality, at what was historically the…

  • Queenston

    Queenston

    Queenston is a small riverside village at the foot of the Niagara Escarpment, founded in the late 1780s at the northern end…

  • Old Town

    Old Town

    Old Town is the historic heart of Niagara-on-the-Lake and served as the first capital of Upper Canada in the 1790s. Burned by…

  • Willoughby

    Willoughby

    Willoughby is the rural southern portion of Niagara Falls, running along the Niagara River between Chippawa and the Fort Erie boundary, and…

  • Drummondville

    Drummondville

    Drummondville is a historic neighbourhood clustered around the Main Street and Ferry Street intersection near the Lundy’s Lane battlefield. Founded around 1831…

  • Stamford

    Stamford

    Stamford is the north-central district of Niagara Falls that was once its own township and the site of Stamford Village, among the…