About Hidden Niagara

About the project

Hidden Niagara is a student project by a Grade 11–12 student in Niagara Falls, Ontario. The plan is about 20 small information signs around the Canadian side of the Falls. Each one stands where its story happened and has a QR code that opens the full story on this website.

The signs are free for landowners: the content is free, and the student pays for the signs. A pilot of five signs comes first.

Contact

Questions, corrections or want a sign on your property? Email hello@hiddenniagara.ca.

Sources

The stories were researched from public sources, including:

• Niagara Parks Commission, for the parks, the Niagara Parks Power Station, Oak Hall and the history of Queen Victoria Park.
• Ontario Power Generation, for the Sir Adam Beck generating stations.
• International Joint Commission, for the 1950 Niagara River Water Diversion Treaty, the International Control Dam and the Lake Erie–Niagara River ice boom.
• Niagara Falls Museums, for local history.
• Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress, for historical photographs.

Found a mistake? Please email us. Facts are checked and corrected as soon as possible.

Photo credits

Photos are used under their free licences (public domain or Creative Commons). Follow each link for the full licence.

• Sign 1: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsa, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 2: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 3: Gotanero, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 4: William England, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 4: Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 5: Ethan Sahagun, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 6: remundo, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 7: EgorovaSvetlana, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 8: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 9: shankar s., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 10: James St. John, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 11: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 12: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 13: Kyle Hartshorn, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 14: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 15: Trailer distributed by 20th Century Fox., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 16: Diego Torres Silvestre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 16: Detroit Publishing Co., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 17: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 18: Changku88, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 18: Works of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
• Sign 20: Alexandra Studios (Toronto): Louis or Nathan Turofsky, Roy M, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Hidden Niagara logo and wave artwork were made for this project.