Dennis Gannon
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Yesterday and Today: Submarine sighted — in Port Dalhousie
Early in 1919, with the war over and with peace talks taking place in Paris, the United States found a way that seized German ships could be put to use, writes Dennis Gannon → Read More
Yesterday & Today: Highway 406 brought changes to St. Catharines city centre
Former industrial site that played important part in history was covered over by highway construction → Read More
Yesterday and Today: Church Street as it used to be in St. Catharines
Leafy residential section was transformed to make way for federal building and post office in the 1950s → Read More
Yesterday and Today: A schooner transiting Lock 17 of the third Welland Canal
Dennis Gannon writes about the vessel Arthur of Toronto → Read More
Yesterday & Today: From repair house to shell house in Port Dalhousie
Early in 1903, the spotlight of the Canadian rowing world suddenly was cast on Port Dalhousie when the Canadian Association of Amateur Oarsmen decided its 1903 meet would take place on Martindale Pond → Read More
Yesterday and Today: A glimpse down King Street in the 1860s
Dennis Gannon writes about the changed landscape of downtown St. Catharines → Read More
Yesterday and Today: A century of change on St. Paul Street
Traffic on St. Paul Street once consisted of horse drawn wagons and the NS&T trolley, writes Dennis Gannon → Read More
Yesterday and Today: The 1914 train disaster on Western Hill
All indications are engineer driving freight train from Merritton did not obey semaphore’s warning → Read More
Yesterday and Today: The swinging predecessor to the Burgoyne Bridge
Located at the bottom of St. Paul Crescent this bridge had for decades carried traffic across the second Welland Canal and on to Western Hill and points beyond → Read More
Yesterday and Today: When trolleys rolled across the Burgoyne Bridge to Western Hill
The opening of a high level bridge late in 1915 — a development long advocated by Standard publisher William B. Burgoyne — solved a problem that had faced travellers since settlement began on the banks of Twelve Mile Creek late in the 18th century, writes Dennis Gannon → Read More
Yesterday and Today: Celebrating Emancipation Day
The Toronto branch of the international United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) rented Lakeside Park in Port Dalhousie, booked passage on the steamships that frequently crossed Lake Ontario, and brought thousands of Black Torontonians over to Port Dalhousie for what came to be called “The Big Picnic,” writes Dennis Gannon → Read More
Yesterday and Today: Dealing with the inevitable — Victoria Lawn Cemetery
First St. Catharines public cemetery established in the 1856, three miles beyond the town limits, writes Dennis Gannon → Read More
Yesterday and Today: Transformation of the old canal lands
Newly named Richard Pierpoint Park marks a once-important section of the original canal system → Read More
Yesterday and Today: The growth and demise of Port Dalhousie’s bustling transportation hub
Construction on the initial Port Dalhousie to Thorold railway segment began in mid-1854; it reached St. Catharines by June 1856, and Thorold by July 1858, writes Dennis Gannon → Read More
Yesterday and Today: The Lutheran congregation that prayed in a carriage house
In January 1914 the congregation of Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church was established, writes Dennis Gannon → Read More
Yesterday and Today: The old transformer station on the Welland Canal
Hydro power is easier to transmit long distances when its voltage is greatly increased over the way it comes from the hydro generators that produce it, writes Dennis Gannon → Read More
Yesterday and Today: The ‘billboard building’ on St. Paul Street
We have two views of an old building that once occupied a prominent location in downtown St. Catharines, writes Dennis Gannon → Read More
Yesterday and Today: Transformation from waterway to parking lot
The central element of the scene was the broad curve of the canal, passing behind and below the businesses and apartment buildings of St. Paul Street, writes Dennis Gannon → Read More
Yesterday and Today: The end of a story — St. Catharines Public Library, 1905-77
After operating in rented, improvised spaces since its establishment in 1888, St. Catharines Public Library got its first purpose-built home in January 1905, writes Dennis Gannon → Read More
Yesterday and Today: The winding path to building a proper St. Catharines city hall
For a while the attempt was made to accommodate both county and town offices in that one building, but that soon became untenable, writes Dennis Gannon → Read More