Niagara Falls Fun - Clifton Hill, Niagara Falls Canada

Planifiez votre Semaine de Relâche

Avez-vous commencé à planifier votre aventure pour votre semaine de relâche? Si vous ne savez pas quoi faire on facilite la décision! Planifiez votre voyage à Niagara Falls, c’est la où vous trouverez la célèbre « rue du plaisir », près des chutes,  Clifton Hill.

On est rendu au milieu de l’année scolaire, c’est l’heure de se relâcher et récompenser les enfants pour leurs efforts. N’est-ce pas? On vous jure que votre expérience à Niagara Falls serait unique et complètement inoubliable!

 Ne vous inquiétez pas de la météo!

Neige ou pluie, mais espérons toujours pour le SOLEIL! Peut importe la météo, presque toutes les attractions le long de Clifton Hill se trouves à l’intérieur. Savourez un repas chez Boston Pizza et amusez-vous en même temps avec votre famille en jouant aux quilles. Les perdants achètent 5 jetons des jeux Midway pour les gagnants… une suggestion excellente n’est-ce pas?!

 Une des attractions la plus populaire sur la colline est le Skywheel. Découvrez les vues pittoresques par les cabines échauffées qui vous prennent 175 pieds (53 mètres) au-dessus des chutes majestueuses de Niagara.

 L’Aventure du Golf Dinosaur est la nouvelle attraction à être ajouté aux aventures de la colline, prête à ouvrir pour la semaine de relâche. C’est une des plus grandes cours de golf miniature dans la nation avec les dinosaures réalistes en route à chacun des 18 trous. Afin d’arriver au 18^e trou, les golfeurs doivent passer par un volcan énorme  qui éclate avec du vapeur.

 Promotions pour la Semaine de Relâche

Pendant les vacances vous pouviez bénéficier des prix promotionnels. Économisez  de l’argent pendant que vous amuser avec la famille sur Clifton Hill. Pour plus d’informations à propos des attractions, les restaurants et les paquets d’hôtels, veuillez visiter le site : http://www.CliftonHill.com/

 En plus, le spectacle du magicien célèbre, Greg Frewin, se passe à quelques minutes de la colline. Commencez avec un repas chez Boston Pizza ou le restaurant Kelsey’s, suivi d’un spectacle de talent magique de Greg Frewin (Ne vous inquiéter pas, les parents s’amusent aussi). Explorez-vous les attractions inépuisables!

 Dirigez-vous vers Clifton Hill

On trouve des fois que la vie nous reprend et on oublie de passer le temps avec la famille. Réunissez-vous à Niagara Falls sur Clifton Hill, c’est là où on oublie le travail et concentre sur la vie familiale!

Source: The Review

New look, name with expansion at city museum
Posted By COREY LAROCQUE , REVIEW STAFF WRITER

A blend of the old and new on Ferry Street is expected to create a new place to commemorate the War of 1812, generate more traffic for the Lundy’s Lane Historical Museum and help revitalize the area around Main and Ferry streets.

New designs for an expansion of the Lundy’s Lane Historical Museum have a two-storey, glass-fronted display area added to the west side of the existing museum housed in the old Stamford township hall.

The designs were approved by city council in October, clearing the way for work to begin on the museum expansion that will be the city’s focal point for the War of 1812 bicentennial celebrations.

It will be home to the new 1812 visitors centre, for people visiting the museum to learn about the war that defined Canada.

Plans include a two-storey exhibit area, with glass windows allowing passersby to look into the museum from the sidewalk.

By bringing the museum, which is set back from the street, out to the sidewalk, staff from Toronto-based Moriyama and Teshima Architects hope to make it part of the activity on the street. (more…)

Originally printed by the Review, Sun, July 26, 2009

Battle of Lundy’s Lane marks 195 years
Preserving our history
Posted By TONY RICCIUTO Review Staff Writer

It’s been 195 years since the Battle of Lundy’s Lane, but that important time in our history continues to be kept alive by those who show up every year to pay their respects at Drummond Hill Cemetery.

This was the place where the American invasion was finally brought to a halt after two years of fighting on July 25, 1814. Click here to read more and to watch a video

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Museum offers cemetery tours
Drummond Hill burial ground ‘most haunted’ in Canada
Posted By JOHN ROBBINS / Review Staff Writer

The City of Niagara Falls Museums is offering residents and visitors a chance to step back in time.

For the seventh year, the museum has arranged walking tours of the historic Drummond Hill Cemetery on weekends during the month of October.

The nighttime tours of what organizers claim is the “most haunted cemetery in Canada” include costumed performers acting out the lives of some famous, and some less well-known, characters from this city’s past. (more…)

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Council commits $2 million to museum’s legacy project
Posted By BY COREY LAROCQUE REVIEW STAFF WRITER

Commemorating the War of 1812′s bicentennial by expanding the museum on the site of one of its most important battlefields is a “no-brainer” for Niagara Falls city council, says Coun. Jim Diodati.

“We’re celebrating the reason we sing ‘O Canada’ instead of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’” Diodati said moments before councillors committed $2 million toward the $11.5-million Lundy’s Lane Battlefield Legacy Project.

The longtime dream of the city’s heritage community will include a $9.7-million expansion of the Lundy’s Lane Historical Museum, just east of Main Street.

The remaining money is to be used to make a pedestrian walkway over Lundy’s Lane, connecting the Drummond Hill cemetery to city-owned land that was the northern part of the historic 1814 Battle of Lundy’s Lane and trails through the battlefield site.

The legacy project will be added to the city’s 2009 capital budget, the spending plan for building major city-owned buildings or buying new equipment.

The city’s museums board asked council to cover a portion of the overall cost. Board members Gord West and Don Jackson told councillors a fundraising campaign will generate the remaining money. That money is expected to come from the provincial and federal governments as well as private donations.

“This project is so exciting, people have come forward. If all the pieces of the puzzle come together, we already have a six-figure donor,” said Jackson, the fundraising chairman. (more…)

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Updating historic site
Posted By BY KRISTY WALLACE REVIEW STAFF WRITER

Lundy’s Lane, site of one of the bloodiest battles fought on Canadian soil, is facing a new conflict today.

The Lundy’s Lane Historical Museum is hoping city council will approve its proposal tonight for an L-shaped addition to the back of the building, expected to be finished in June 2012.

Don Jackson, chairman of the fundraising committee for the board, said about $9.7 million is expected to go into the museum if it receives approval from city council.

If approved, the project will cost the city and the board of museums slightly less than $2 million each, while the federal and provincial governments would pay just less than $4 million each for the project.

This would allow for extra changes to be made, such as better parking, a pedestrian walkway over Lundy’s Lane, improvements on the Battle Ground Hotel Museum and signs and trails at the historic site. (more…)

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Bench battle looms on Lane; Businesses, Kiwanis both want control
Posted By COREY LAROCQUE

The next battle of Lundy’s Lane could be fought over who controls the benches in the busy tourist area.

The Stamford Kiwanis Club plans to fight for control of the 30 advertising benches in the tourist area, while businesses in the area say they’re pleased the benches are finally in their hands.

“We haven’t given up on this. We’re still in the throes of hoping this is a viable project,” said Brian McKeown, chairman of the Kiwanis club’s bus bench committee.

The city and the Kiwanis have a longstanding agreement to have the club take care of the 110 concrete-and-wood benches on sidewalks in business areas throughout the city. (more…)

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Lundy’s Lane soon home to new stores

A new shoe store and Shopper’s Drug Mart are moving onto Lundy’s Lane.

The construction site on Lundy’s Lane beside Country Style Donuts will be a new, large-format Shopper’s Drug Mart, said Tammy Smitham, the company’s director of communications.

Smitham said the new, 14,000-square-foot store will replace the 8,000-square-foot store at the corner of Drummond Road and Lundy’s Lane.

The owner of the current store and the staff will relocate to the new store once construction is complete in November, Smitham said. (more…)

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Museum’s character lives on
Posted By Nancy Reynolds

If it is true that buildings have personalities, then the Lundy’s Lane Museum, the former Stamford Township Hall, has hundreds of ghosts.

Countless people and careers, many community directions, endless memories had their beginnings in that solemn old stone building. It was once the focal point of a neighbourhood called Drummondville and it was a seat of local government.

My connections began during construction of Stamford Township Hall. Sam Patten and his brother Charlie were stone masons who worked on the hall and on many other stone buildings in the area. Samuel Patten was my maternal grandfather. My mother, Helen James, often spoke of her father’s stone work and of his political participation in the affairs of the south end. Sam Patten died at a young age, when his horse shied and he was thrown from his buggy headfirst into a boulder. (more…)

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Lundy’s Lane site has longtime tourism association
Posted By Zavitz, Sherman

The photo at the left was taken in 1946. It shows a part of the Lundy’s Lane Tourist Camp, which sat on the south side of the Lane beside the Queen Elizabeth Way. Like most such operations at the time, it offered small, simple cabins as well as an area for tents.

The business was founded in 1945 by Grace Shriner and her husband, Percy. The following year, it was taken over by Louis Ferencz, who had previously operated Niagara Auto Wreckers on Stanley Avenue.

By the mid-1950s, the tourist camp was replaced by a motel and the name of the business changed accordingly. A restaurant was also now available.

In 1946, the year Ferencz began operating the tourist camp, the adjacent QEW became two lanes of pavement between Niagara Falls and Fort Erie. Before that, there were four lanes of gravel. It wasn’t until Oct. 14, 1956, that four lanes of paved highway were officially opened between Niagara Falls and Fort Erie. (more…)