Preserving Niagara-on-the-Lake’s heritage since 1962.
SUMMER PARTIES
We like to fund raise in style. Support our activities. Every summer The Niagara Foundation holds three cocktail parties, each on a different Saturday, at a different home in Niagara-on-the-Lake. From 5:30-7:30 drinks and hors d'oeuvres are served in a garden setting, rain or shine. $200 per person - come once, twice or every time!
2023 dates are:
Saturday, June 17
Saturday, July 15
Saturday, August 12
To purchase tickets, contact Jane Dagg at 905.468.7781 or [email protected].
LIVING LANDMARK
Each year The Niagara Foundation chooses a resident of Niagara-on-the-Lake to receive the Foundation’s prestigious Living Landmark Award. The recipient of the award is an individual who the Foundation feels has made an outstanding contribution to the quality of life in Niagara. The 2023 dinner will be Saturday, Nov. 18, at Navy Hall. In 2022 we recognized Jim Alexander.
Past recipientsWILDERNESS
Goettler Family Foundation Pledges $1 Million To Help Safeguard The Wilderness Read 2022 announcement
Niagara Foundation to Acquire Half Interest in Historic 5.5-acre Niagara-on-the-Lake Woods Read 2018 news release
2022 ELECTION
The Niagara Foundation asked candidates in the 2022 municipal election to share their views on a number of key heritage and development issues that are important to our community. Read what the candidates said
NEWS
Foundation to Town re Transportation Master Plan July 25, 2022 Read submission
Foundation to Council re Rand Estate Sept. 27, 2021 Read submission
Foundation to Council re Parliament Oak Sept. 27, 2021 Read submission
THE NIAGARA FOUNDATION
PO Box 790, NOTL, ON L0S 1J0
[email protected]
Website design by Punch & Judy
Photography by David Cooper
and Cosmo Condina
Recent Community Initiatives
- St. Andrew’s Church Steeple
- Historical Gravestones
- William Gollop House
- Foghorn House
- St. Mark’s Rectory
- William Steward House
- Willowbank School of Restoration Arts Scholarship
- Native Memorial at Queenston Heights
William Steward House
507 Butler Street
William Steward, an African-American teamster and his wife Susannah lived in Niagara from 1834 – 1847. The Steward House was a part of Niagara’s “coloured village” – a vibrant community of former Canadian slaves, black loyalists, and African-American refugees. In 1837, Wm. Steward was one of 17 local blacks who signed a petition asking Lieut. Gov. Sir Frances Bond Head to refuse to extradite Kentucky fugitive Solomon Moseby, who was rescued from the Niagara jail by more than 100 Afro-Canadians. In 1847, the Stewards moved to Galt (now Cambridge).
The house is an excellent example of the local vernacular architecture. It went through many changes, including surrounding porches, but the Foundation’s restoration returned it to its earlier form. The Foundation purchased the property to rescue it from development, and completed the exterior restoration in 2006. The house is now privately owned.