Black and white halftone photograph of workers channelling sides of the rock cutting during the fourth Welland Canal construction, c. 1920. From the booklet "Welland Ship Canal (Under Construction)" by the Department of Railways and Canals.
An obituary from the June 2, 1903 edition of the Welland Tribune and Peoples Press about Charles Davis. He was an escaped slave from Maryland who settled in Niagara Falls, then part of Welland County. It states he was a respected and prominent…