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The Winter of our Content. Courage, Faith, Hope, Peace, Joy, The Realness, True Love, Calmness, The Light and snow, lots and lots of snow :)

The Luck of Brin's Five. by Cherry Wilder.

This is a story that told of a man who crashed on a planet where he was adopted and accepted by a local multi generational alien family. This alien culture saw caring and helping any living being who was in some way challenged or different, as an honour and a priviledge. To be able to help care for someone very elderly, disabled, ill or diverse was seen as being lucky, as it was a way to add to society's growth in empathy and kindness

When you don't understand, lean in more. When it challenges your intelligence, lean in more. When it makes you feel stupid… lean in more.

When we're faced with ideas, innovations and information that we don't understand – the natural human response is to lean out. To dismiss. To protect our ego.
But the key is to reserve the temptation of judgement.
Ask honest questions:
Why am I believing what I believe?
Is it possible that I'm wrong?
Do I know what I'm talking about?
Am I leaning out because I don't understand?
Those that have the patience and conviction to do this will undoubtedly own the future.
Those that don't will continue to be left behind.
What are you leaning out of right now that you should be leaning into?

-The Diary of a CEO.

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The old Power Station soon to be turned into a luxury hotel

Loretto Academy - closed in 2006. New development pending for $1 billion luxury hotel & condo

Oak Hall - view from Dufferin Islands. Current Admin office for Niagara Parks

More photos below of Niagara's architecture and designs. The Niagara Parks Commission takes wonderful care of the 'tourist' area, it really is beautiful at all times of the year. It's not just about the Falls, although they are magnificent on their own!! See below for Niagara's history

Table Rock

Table Rock

Queen Victoria Park Restaurant

Queen Victoria Park Restaurant

The Floral Showcase

The Floral Showcase

The Floral Showcase

The Floral Showcase

View of falls area from Dufferin Island

View of falls area from Dufferin Island

The Skylon

The Skylon

Top of the Skylon

Top of the Skylon

Niagara Falls NY Observation Tower

Niagara Falls NY Observation Tower

Niagara Falls A Brief History

Louis Hennepin, a French priest and missionary, is considered to be the first European to visit the area in the 1670s.

After surveys were completed in 1782 the area was referred to as Township Number 2 as well as Mount Dorchester after Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (and today is honoured by Dorchester Road). The earliest settlers of Township Number 2 were Philip George Bender (namesake of Bender Street and Bender Hill near Casino Niagara originally from Germany and later New Jersey and Philadelphia and Thomas McMicken (a Scottish-born British Army veteran). Increased settlement in this area took place during and after the American Revolutionary War, when the British Crown made land grants to Loyalists to help them resettle in Upper Canada and provide some compensation for their losses after the United States became independent. Loyalist Robert Land received 200 acres and was one of the first people of European descent to settle in the Niagara Region. He moved to nearby Hamilton three years later due to the relentless noise of the falls.

In 1791, John Graves Simcoe renamed the town as Stamford after Stamford, Lincolnshire in England but today Stamford is only used for an area northwest of downtown Niagara Falls as well as Stamford Street.

During the war of 1812, the battle of Lundy's Lane took place nearby in July 1814. In 1856, the Town of Clifton was incorporated by Ogden Creighton after Clifton, Bristol. The name of the town was changed to Niagara Falls in 1881. In 1882, the community of Drummondville (near the present-day corner of Lundy's Lane and Main Street) was incorporated as the village of Niagara Falls (South). The village was referred to as Niagara Falls South to differentiate it from the town. In 1904, the town and village amalgamated to form the City of Niagara Falls. In 1963, the city amalgamated with the surrounding Stamford Township. In 1970, the Niagara regional government was formed. This resulted in the village of Chippawa, Willoughby Township, and part of Crowland Township being annexed into Niagara Falls.

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