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      The 1939 royal tour of Canada was a cross-Canada royal tour by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, lasting from May 17 to June 15, 1939. It was the first visit of a reigning monarch to Canada. The royal couple arrived by train in St. Catharines on June 7, 1939, …

      The steamer "Corona" operated on the Toronto-Niagara run between 1896-1930. "The Corona was a side wheeler, capable of carrying 2,000 passengers. She was 272 feet long and was designed by a Mr. Angstrom. The Corona was built by the Bertram Engine and Shipbuilding Company of Toronto in 1895 and was …

      The "Ongiara" was a wooden, double-deck, propeller driven steam ferry built in 1885 at Toronto by Melancthon Simpson and commissioned as the "Queen City". In 1888 she was sold to the Niagara Transportation Company, which renamed her the "Ongiara" and started using her across the Niagara River, between Queenston, Ontario …

      Sepia tone photograph of Queenston dock during ice jam in late 1920s. The sign "Queenston" in the foreground; in the background: the stairs on the riverbank and a building on the hill. Picture taken from the Niagara River side.

      Laura Ingersoll Secord moved from Queenston to Chippawa in 1835 when her husband James became a customs collector at the port of Chippawa (the position came with a home). After her husband's death (James Secord died of a stroke on 22 February 1841), Laura Secord bought a cottage on Water …

      Miss Corman was a principal of Laura Secord Memorial School from 1918 to 1954. Photo undated- probably taken in early 1920s, in St. David's/Queenston area. Luella Wallace Lowrey was born in Queenston on Dec 10, 1894 to Matthew Charles Lowrey and Helen Emily Wallace. In 1926 she married Thomas Henry …

      Possible year: 1908

      In 1936, The Niagara Parks Commission undertook the restoration of the Mackenzie House from ruin. The rebuilt home was was officially opened on June 18, 1938 by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Mackenzie's great grandson.

      Black and white photograph of two-storey, gable roof house with a verandah and a balcony. There is a plenty of space around with big trees and shrubs and low border hedge in the front of the house, separating it from a street.

      Black and white photo of Queenston Dock with buildings and platform damaged by ice jam. "TORONTO BOATS. Canada Steamship Lines" sign still visible above the ice.

      Black and white photograph of Niagara River and a gully called Deep Hollow with railway tracks along the river. Undated, probably 1929.

      Miss Hazel A. Corman, retiring after 35 years as principal of Laura Secord Memorial School in Queenston public school, was guest of honor Sunday June 21, 1953 at a tea party arranged by the Home and School Association and S.S. No. 4, Niagara, in Laura Secord Memorial Hall.

      Miss Hazel A. Corman, retiring after 35 years as principal of Laura Secord Memorial School in Queenston public school, was guest of honor Sunday June 21, 1953 at a tea arranged by the Home and School Association and S.S. No. 4, Niagara, in Laura Secord Memorial Hall.

      Sepia tone photograph of cheerful girls, standing and holding their hands together. Picture was taken outside, in January 1919; there are a few houses in the background. A beige paper note with handwritten names of the students (on both sides) was attached to this photo.

      Women’s Institute of Queenston and St. David’s was founded in 1908. In 1920s the organization bought then unused former Queenston Baptist Church and opened as a hall in June 6, 1929.

      Negatives from Pat Arrington

      "Mrs. Huggins remembers renting a rowboat at this boat house from John Humphrey, the Queeenston Dockmaster. She and Hazel Corman, then principal of Laura Secord School, where Mrs. Huggins also taught, went on the river. Both of the young ladies knew how to row, but they had difficulty coming back …

      There is a handwritten note indicating winter 1962-3 which is probably wrong. In 1954 a large rock fall occurred at the observation platform at Prospect Point and nearly 200,000 tons of rock fell down into the gorge. In the Fall of 1958, construction began on a 282 foot tall steel …

      Black and white photograph of (left to right): Ex-Reeve and Ex-Warden William J. Hunter, Ex-Reeve and Ex-Warden Robert G. Dawson, cutting the tape and Ex-Reeve Wilfred Stewart taken at the formal opening of the Niagara Township Municipal Building on May 31, 1957.

      Miss Hazel A. Corman, retiring after 35 years as principal of Laura Secord Memorial School in Queenston public school, was guest of honor Sunday June 21, 1953 at a tea party arranged by the Home and School Association and S.S. No. 4, Niagara, in Laura Secord Memorial Hall.