Did Queen Elizabeth visit Niagara Falls?

Queen Elizabeth II never stepped foot in Western New York during her 70-year reign. But the British monarch visited St. Catharines, Niagara-on-the-Lake and Hamilton in Ontario. And she visited Niagara Falls, N.Y., as a 25-year-old princess, four months before inheriting the throne.



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Most of the early settlers in what is now Niagara Falls were United Empire Loyalists. Arriving here just before and after the close of the American Revolution, their steadfast support of the British during that epochal event had brought them persecution and privation.

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On July 9th 1960, seven year old Roger Woodward and his 17 year old sister Deanne, both of Niagara Falls, New York set out on a boat ride through the upper Niagara River with family friend James Honeycutt.

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The name Niagara first appears, in the form Onguiaahra, in the writings of Jesuit priest Jérôme Lalemant, Superior to the Huron Mission, in 1641. The word is clearly of aboriginal origin, but Lalemant says nothing about its meaning.

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