Tag: Niagara River

Josiah Henson reached freedom in Fort Erie in 1830 after he crossed the Niagara River from Buffalo to escape slavery. On October 10, more than...

Fort Erie residents reported seeing a bright bluish-green streak of light crossing east to west over Lake Erie between 8:15 and 8:20 a.m. Saturday. Three...

Thirteen candidates are running for four seats on Fort Erie town council in the October 26 municipal election. Incumbents are running again in all four...

Military Time held off Brachetto by half a length to win the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes at the Fort Erie Race Track on Monday....

A new three-part documentary series examines the 10,000 years of Indigenous history buried under Fort Erie, its producer says. ‘Echoes of the Ancestors: The History...

Debi Selib started writing after her husband died two years ago, and one of the books that came out of it was a children’s story...

A provincial staff member is now searching for money to replace Fort Erie’s fire rescue boats after Mayor Wayne Redekop put the request directly to...

The annual Siege of Old Fort Erie re-enactment drew its largest number of visitors and participants since before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the fort’s...

Niagara South MP Fred Davies has asked Veterans Affairs Canada to enter the nine militiamen killed at the Battle of Ridgeway into the Books of...

Niagara Parks will stage its annual Siege of Fort Erie re-enactment at Old Fort Erie on August 8 and 9, with re-enactors from across North...