Putting a Little Light on the Subject aka Illuminating the Falls
As previously mentioned in my last post about my trip to Niagara Falls wherein I wrote of souvenirs, statues, and stupidity , as night began to descend on the area the number of tourists really began to increase and that was because they were all waiting for just one thing. No, not a horse-drawn carriage ride around Victoria Park even though that certainly did look like a very romantic way to tour the area - particularly if you had someone to snuggle up in the back of the carriage with! What all of the tourists - and myself - were patiently waiting for was the nightly Illumination of the Falls, a treat for visitors that has occurred every night throughout all seasons since June 8th, 1925 with the exception of several periods during World Wars I & II, in January of 1938 when a major ice jam shut down the Ontario Power Company Generating Station at the base of the gorge, and once again for a few evenings in August 2003 when the lights were turned off to suppo...