Interesting Insights into an amazing historical neighbourhood - The Yates Street Heritage District
There are many things to learn from this bit of urban structure.
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Learning from Local
In attempting to understand something, it is always good to look around and back in time. Rather unfortunately ordinary details of the past tend to be forgotten, together with what we might learn from them.
Designed for Touring: Niagara Falls, Canada
The Niagara area of Canada has been a tourist destination for over two hundred years, and has successfully evolved to address changing expectations. A short explanatory tour will take the visitor to just a few of the many attractions, and will help to demonstrate why Niagara retains its appeal as a place that everyone has to visit - at least once.
A Memorable Place: Memorial School, Niagara Falls
What makes a place worthy of positive note. This is not a frivolous matter - architects, planners and developers all have a role in ensuring that the wider population responds in a positive manner to the buildings and cities that they create.
The Lakeside Pavilion at Port Dalhousie
The area is wrapped in layers of historical sentiment, and implementing change can threaten many people - including memories of one's grandparents and great-grandparents. Who knows how many times those dimly-remembered ancestors actually visited it, or what they made of the place, but when one of the structures is found to be at the end of its life, things get interesting.
The Brodsky House, St.Catharines
Many people in theses circumstances decide to move, but the location had many attractions.
In Memoriam
A war memorial exists in virtually every town in Ontario, built to commemorate those most horrific years of slaughter. Even though we often walk by them without remark, some strange aura seems to surround them. The incised words may always haunt us: Ypres, Arras, The Somme, Passchendaele, Cambrai, Vimy - so many battles, so many dead.
Niagara Entertainment Architecture
There has always been ample entertainment in the Niagara area to meet the needs of its visitors. However, the entertainment offerings are not static, which helps to explain the area’s enduring success as a tourist destination.