History of Niagara-on-the-Lake
An Overview

 

Early Inhabitants

 

The First Europeans (1600 - 1700)

 

British Rule (1700 – 1776)

The United Empire Loyalists (1776-1786)

The Settlement of Newark

The War of 1812-1814 

The Niagara Harbour and Dock Company and the Welland Canal

 

The Underground Railroad

 

Irish Settlement 

Summer Visitors

The Twentieth Century

Queenston

St. Davids