Peere, Stephen, tight-rope artist,
131


Percy, C. A., goes through rapids,
146
-
149


Perry, Lieut. O. H., captures Fort George,
274
-
276


Pike at the capture of York,
302
seq.


Pittsburg Reduction and Mining Co.,
118


Platt, John J., mentioned,
80


Portage, old Niagara,
15
,
18


Porter's Bluff,
33


Porter, Judge,
37
,
38
,
96


Porter, Hon. Peter A.,
Guide Book
,
11
;

Old Fort Niagara, 11 , 197 , 200 , 207-209, 213 ;

Goat Island, 11 , 19 ;

on proposed attack on Fort Niagara in 1755, 207-209;

on commercial importance of Fort Niagara, 213-214


Potts, William, Niagara crank,
139


Pouchot, Gen., surrenders Fort Niagara,
209
-
213


Poughkeepsie Eagle
quoted,
80


Power development at Niagara,
99
-
122


Prideaux, Gen. John, captures Fort Niagara,
209
seq.


Prospect Point,
20
,
21



Q

"Quebec Act," effect of,
217
-
218


Queen Victoria Park,
44
,
108


Queen's Royal Hotel,
51


Queenston,
50


Queenston Heights,
48
;

battle on, 263 seq.



R

Rapids of Niagara,
11
-
15
,
22
,
45
,
46
,
49
-
50
;

Hunter's painting of, 11 , 14


Read, D. B.,
The Life and Times of General Brock
, cited,
232


Red Jacket, anecdote of,
22


Reed, Andrew, suggests reclamation of Niagara,
77


Remington, C. K., on the building-site of the
Griffon
,
183


Road to Frontenac, The
, mentioned,
162


Robb, J. H., on first Niagara Commission,
80


Robinson, Joel, sails the
Maid of the Mist
through lower rapids,
144
-
146


Rogers, Sherman S., on first Niagara Commission,
80



S

St. Davids, Ont., in the history of geologic Niagara,
63


St. Lawrence drainage,
3


St. Lawrence River, George Waldo Browne on,
4


Schlosser, Capt.,
15
,
213
;

see Fort Schlosser


Scott, Gen. Winfield, in War of 1812,
267
seq.


Scribner's Monthly
quoted,
25


Senecas dominate Niagara frontier,
5


Severance, F. H.,
Old Trails of the Niagara Frontier
,
6
,
219
-
222


Sheaffe, Gen., mentioned,
268
seq.


Ship Island,
30


"Shipyard of the
Griffon
," the, see Remington


Shirley, Gov., plans Niagara attack,
207


"Shoreless Sea," the,
45


Silliman, Prof., Basil Hall writes,
34
-
35


Simcoe, Gov., John Graves, mentioned,
229
,
294
seq.


Smyth, Gen., in War of 1812,
271
seq.


Spelterini, Signorina, tight-rope artist,
130


Spencer, J. W., estimates Niagara's age,
66


Spouting Rock,
41


Steadman Bluff,
30


Steadman, John, first owner of Goat Island,
18


Steel arch bridge, built by Roebling,
46


Story of Canada, The
, by Bourinot, quoted,
288
-
291


Sullivan's campaign of 1779,
223



T

Table Rock,
38
,
45


Taft, Sec'y William H., on the "destruction of Niagara,"
117
-
120


Talbot, E. A., description of early Toronto,
308


Taylor, Mrs. A. E., barrel-fiend,
141
-
143


Tempest Point,
104


Terrapin Rocks,
33
,
37
-
38


Terrapin Tower,
33
,
37


Tesla, Nikola, on Niagara electrical power,
120


Thayer, Eugene, on the music of Niagara,
25
-
26


Thompson, Sir William, prophesies era of electricity,
77


Three Sister Island,
40


Tonawanda, N. Y., mentioned,
10


Toronto, Ont.,
51
;

history of, 292-313


Toronto and Niagara Power Co.,
104
,
105
,
112
,
121


Tupper, Ferdinand Brock,
The Life and Correspondence of Major-General

Sir Isaac Brock, K. B., cited, 232


Tyndall, Prof., on Terrapin Rocks,
33



U

United Empire Loyalists,
228


Upper Canada, and Lower, divided,
295



V

Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler, on Niagara, quoted,
24
,
27
,
42
-
44


Van Rensselaer, Col. Solomon,
264
-
266


Van Rensselaer, Gen. Stephen,
263


Victoria Falls compared with Niagara Falls,
13



W