NIAGARA FALLS (formerly Clifton or Suspension Bridge)

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NIAGARA FALLS (formerly Clifton or Suspension Bridge) , a town and port of entry of Welland county, Ontario, Canada, 40 M. S.S.E. of Toronto, on the west bank of the Niagara river and opposite the Falls. Pop. (1901) 4244. It is a station on the Grand Trunk, Michigan Central and St Catharines & Niagara Central railways, and has electric railway communication with the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

towns in the neighbourhood. Three large steel bridges connect it with the American town of Niagara Falls on the opposite bank. Its importance is chiefly due to the tourist

traffic

TRAFFIC

, but the unrivalled water power is being more and more employed. Factories have sprung up, and power is transmitted to Toronto and other cities. A beautiful park, named after
1 On the night of the loth of December 1813 the American general George McClure (1771-1851), upon abandoning Fort George, set fire to

Newark

, almost destroying the town and causing

great

GREAT

suffering among the inhabitants. McClure attempted to justify this act by a strained construction of a

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also WRITING)
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

to him from the secretary of war, but it was promptly disavowed by the United States government. The burning of

Newark

led to severe

reprisals

REPRISALS (Fr. represailles, from reprendre; Lat. reprehendere, to take back)

on the

part

PART

of the British.
above the Falls.

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