c. 1812 This is an ammunition chest made of wood, canvas and iron, and measures 272.5 x 56.3 x 52.5 CM. It has a curved lid covered with canvas with iron strapping, and angled iron on the four corners with iron rings attached. There are four sections inside and it has two iron hasp fastenings on the front...

18 Jul 1812 The Weekly Register, also known as Niles Weekly Register, was a weekly periodical edited by Hezekiah Niles (1777-1839) and published in Baltimore Maryland. Volumes of interest were published between 1811 (Vol. 1, No. 1, September 7, 1811) to 1814 (Vol. 5, No. 26, February 26, 1814). These volumes...

Black and white photo post card with inscription NOTL, Ontario. Back of postcard is blank. This aerial photograph provides a view of the boat building complex along the Niagara River of the Shepherd Boat Company in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Also in view in the photo is the steeple of St. Vincent De...

1812 An American one cent coin with Liberty on the face side and identified as being from 1812.According to one source, this design of the Large Cent, designed by John Reich, bears a new design of Miss Liberty facing the left and wearing a tiara with the inscription Liberty. The date is under her bust...

Fine white linen shawl, embroidered in white silk, with white silk fringe around all four sides. Made From Flax Grown on Family Farm of John Butler. It has been suggested that it was worn at a Butler family wedding in 1800.

1 Dec 1814 No. 25 in a series of transmissions from the President regarding the War. Full title is "Message from the President of the United States transmitting communications from the American Ministers at Ghent, shewing the Progress and State of the Negotiations for Peace with Great Britain" Dated...

The Niagara Wharf Daily Register, 1836-1838, is the oldest of four surviving wharfage and storage registers from the Niagara Harbor & Dry Dock Company. It is a brown leather bound book measuring approximately 32cm x 22cm x 3cm. The spine of the book is severely worn reflecting its day-to-day...

Sutter boat on the River during Ice Jam

This is not a photograph, but a print of a drawing of the Cibola (part of the Niagara Navigation Company) on the Niagara River with Fort Niagara in the background. Within eight years of being constructed, the Cibola met a tragic fate. Belonging to the Niagara Navigation Company, the Cibola, built...

Black and White glossy photograph of "Cayuga." Two men with caps on, in dock showing some of the wharf.

Troops arriving by S.S. Cayuga for Camp at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

Chicora at the Queenston docks, 1909

1882 Mouth of the River from Ramparts of Old Fort George. Fort Niagara on the American shore on the opposite side can be seen. From picturesque Canada. The photo showss a view of St.Marks Church,the Dock area, two steamshops and two sail boats.

Postcard of the Steamer Cayuga landing at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Fort Niagara, Railway, Rail Station, Horse & cart for cargo are all visible in the background.

View of lower Niagara, showing the Steamer Cayuga, Queenston Heights and Brock's monument in the distance.

1950 Steamer Cayuga going up Niagara River.

1915 Suspension Bridge at Queenston and The Cayuga, 1915.

1995 This is a black and white photograph showing the American Shore of the Niagara River with the Steamship Corona in the forefront.

3 Aug 1918 Looking down the Niagara River from Brock Monument. To Private George Woodruff- 2cent Red Stamp from St.David Correspondence on back.." Glad you had good weather in France and Scotland.Signed Nellie.

3 Aug 1918 Looking down the Niagara River from Brock Monument. To Private George Woodruff- 2cent Red Stamp from St.David Correspondence on back.." Glad you had good weather in France and Scotland.Signed Nellie.

Postcard of the Queen's Royal Hotel with the steamship Corona in the distance.

Black and white photograph of the steamship Chippewa.

This postcard show the view Queenston and lower Niagara from Queenston Heights.

1893

This photographs shows two Niagara Navigation Ships on the Niagara River. The Chippewa, a sidewheeler steamship, and The Cayuga, a screw propelled steamer.

1920 Book of tickets for the Canada Steamship Lines - Niagara-on-the-Lake to Toronto route. Tan binding and orange tickets. Only those listed in the book are allowed to use the tickets, the Eckersley's listed "Maid" as one of those who could use them.

Captain Lindell, Steamship Captain.

Photograph taken from a steamship coming into the wharf at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Photograph shows the dock, slip, warehouse and vendor at the wharf.

1945 Photograph of The steamship Cayuga taken in 1945.

The Cayuga was the most famous of the ships crossing Lake Ontario to Niagara. Built by Canadian Shipbuilding of Toronto, she was launched March 3, 1906. She was propelled by twin screws rather than paddles. The Cayuga serviced the lake until 1957. During her service, more than 15 million people...

29 Apr 1909 The Niagara Dock survived the Ice Jam in April of 1909. In the end, every other wharf and dock along the lower river was completely destroyed.

29 Apr 1909 For more than twenty days, the ice threatened the Niagara Wharf. It finally broke completely free on April 29, 1909. In the end, every wharf and dock along the lower river was completely destroyed except for the Niagara dock. There would have been a considerable loss to the tourism economy of...

1909 The Ice Jam of April 1909 occurred when seven miles of ice came over the Falls and down the Niagara River. Towers of ice up to forty feet high were recorded; wharfs(like McIntyre's Wharf shown here in this picture), were pushed off their piles and newspapers reported hundreds of thousands of...

1909 This picture shows the damage from the Ice Jam of 1909. Seven miles of ice came down the Niagara River causing hundreds and thousands for dollars worth of damage to property along the riverbank.

Jul 1927 This photo shows the River Front Hotel, the coal chute used to refuel steamers,the railway station, and the Canada Steamship Lines freight shed.

Samuel Zimmerman was the owner of the Erie and Ontario Railroad and he purchased the Niagara Harbour and Dock Company in 1853. Working with the town, Zimmerman was able to construct a railway line which opened in 1854. In 1857 Zimmerman was killed in the Desjardins Canal (near Hamilton).

1935 This black and white photo was taken from the balcony of the American Hotel around 1935. It shows The Cayuga at the dock and commercial fishing boats in the basin.