Looking for vacation ideas? The Ontario Genealogical Society’s Niagara Peninsula Branch has just the ticket for you.
This week the branch released its Niagara Heritage Map for a beautiful part of the country to visit.
Designed by volunteers as a heritage tourism resource, the map is a useful tool to help genealogists, local historians, heritage travellers, and anyone interested in exploring the history of Niagara, Ontario.
It includes includes open, historic, and family cemeteries, Welland Canal sites, War of 1812 sites, historical plaque locations, Niagara museums, and other heritage places across the region. It is designed to help you connect names, records, and family stories to real places across Niagara.
For those researching ancestors in St. Catharines, Welland, Niagara Falls, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Fort Erie, Port Colborne, Grimsby, Lincoln, Pelham, Thorold, West Lincoln, and surrounding Niagara communities, the map provides a practical starting point.
This is a growing resource. Future additions will include school sites and religious institutions.
