Lighthouse and Wharf during Ice Jam.
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- 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 Niagara-on-the-Lake, the Niagara Navigation Company, and Michigan Central Railway had the wharf given way to the enormous stress placed upon it.
- Date of Publication
- 29 Apr 1909
- Local identifier
- 984.5.251
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.25012 Longitude: -79.06627
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Niagara Historical Society MuseumEmail:contact@niagarahistorical.museum
Website:
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P.O. Box 208
Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON
L0S 1J0
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