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From 1999 to 2003, during the premierships of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves, St. Catharines was the only large city in Ontario to not have at least one government member representing the city, as the Progressive Conservative-held ridings of Lincoln and St. Catharines—Brock were eliminated as a cost-saving measure.
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Indigenous Peoples Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Iroquoian-speaking Chonnonton, or “people of the deer,” lived in the region that now includes St. Catharines, between the Grand and Niagara rivers. Often referred to as the Neutral, this name was given to them by the French who observed that the tribe remained neutral in most conflicts betwe...
At St. Catharines, the core community, the Welland Canal (1829) and an associated mill raceway from the canal at Merritton introduced mills, shipyards, and metal and machinery manufacturing to the area. Mineral springs with medicinal properties added resort hotels, and the town became a popular inland summer resort. In the latter half of the 19th c...
A continuous strip of industrial and associated housing developments arose along the canal valley between St. Catharines and Merritton after the 1850s, where the canal was crossed by the Great Western Railway. Paper and chemical industries developed and Port Dalhousie, served by the Welland Railway, added flour mills, the manufacture of rubber boot...
The city contains over 30 per cent of the population in the Regional Municipality of Niagara. About 76 per cent of St. Catharines reported their ethnic origins as English, Canadian or Scottish, according to the 2016 census. Visible minorities make up 12.7 per cent of the population, with Black, Chinese, Latin American and South Asian people compris...
Over time, service activities have expanded, resulting in a remarkably changed economic structure in the city, from primarily manufacturing with some service activities to service industries (education, health services, city administration and policing) with some accompanying manufacturing. The manufacturing sector has been in decline since the ear...
As a district transportation centre on the main routes through southwestern Ontario, St. Catharines features main-line passenger and freight railway services by Via Rail and Canadian National; the Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 406; and an inter-urban and intra-urban bus terminal. A GO (Government of Ontario) bus service connects Niagara Falls, St...
One of 12 municipalities in the Regional Municipality of Niagara, St. Catharines is governed by a mayor elected at large and 12 councillors, two from each of the six wards. (See also Municipal Government in Canada.) The mayor and six councillors elected at large serve on the 29-member Regional Niagara Council. Parks and libraries, the fire departme...
St. Catharines has a rich and expanding cultural base. The Carousel Players and Garden City Productions provide live theatre and the Niagara Symphony Orchestra is now the orchestra-in-residence at Brock University. Chorus Niagara, formerly part of the symphony, has since 1963 provided a varied classical choral repertoire. Rodman Hall Arts Centre ha...
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Feb 14, 2019 · Why Harriet Tubman made St. Catharines her home. For most of the decade prior to the Civil War, the American abolitionist made southern Ontario her home base — and helped other escaped slaves do the same. Written by Jamie Bradburn. Feb 14, 2019.
- St Catharines is the largest city in Canada's Niagara Region and the sixth largest urban area in the province of Ontario. FactSnippet No. 1,355,890.
- St Catharines is between the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and the Canada–U. FactSnippet No. 1,355,891.
- St Catharines'storians have speculated that Dick's Creek was named after Richard Pierpoint, a Black Loyalist and former American slave, due to an oral history account and events that had taken place around that time that would be consistent with Pierpoint being the source of the name.
- St Catharines did this from his mill, built on the 12 Mile Creek in Power Glen. FactSnippet No. 1,355,893.
May 16, 2024 · Watson’s last stand: Controversial statue removed from St. Catharines city hall. The 138-year-old monument of the Northwest Resistance soldier reinstalled at burial site in Victoria Lawn ...
The chapel near downtown St. Catharines is a significant monument of Black history in Canada. The chapel was founded by the British Methodist Episcopal Church in 1820. From 1851, the church was known as the Bethel Chapel. In 1957, the church was renamed Salem Chapel. In 1999, the Salem Chapel received a national historic designation by the ...
Oct 17, 2023 · The statue, erected in 1886, depicts a soldier who grew up in St. Catharines and died fighting with government forces during the North-West Rebellion in 1885 at the Battle of Batoche.
