Rural Routes - Allanburg

1560 Falls St.
Allanburg, Ontario
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Ontario Tourism Region : Niagara Falls and Wine Country

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Allanburg, Ontario is a small community within the City of Thorold, Ontario. It is located along the Welland Canal. Hwy 20 bisects the community with a lift bridge, known locally as the Allanburg Bridge.
The original sod-turning ceremony for the construction of the First Welland Canal took place in the area on November 30, 1824. Today, a cairn at the west approach to the lift bridge commemorates the event. (soto.on.ca)
Pop. 486. Part of the City of Thorold, Reg. Mun. of Niagara, on the WeIland Canal and C. Rd. 20, 10 km. W of Niagara Falls.
The place was first called New Holland because of the many Dutch and German United Empire Loyalist settlers.
A village was laid out in 1832 by Samuel Keefer and originally named Allanburgh to honour two men: William Allan, a Toronto banker who was vice-president of the Canal Company, and John Vanderburgh, the first settler.
In 1887 the post office changed the name to Allanburg.
A tornado swept through the Niagara Peninsula in 1996 and trashed the big screen at the Can-View drive-in theatre just W of Allanburg.
The twister hit before dark so nobody was injured when the screen came down. The drive-in was to have shown the movie Twister that evening.

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