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NIAGARA FALLS (formerly Clifton or Suspension Bridge)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 635 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
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
  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
 , 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
  suffering among the inhabitants. McClure attempted to justify this act by a strained construction of a
letter
  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
  on the
part
  of the British.
above the Falls.


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