Visiting Southern Ontario and Niagara Falls

Fall and winter in southern Ontario brings spectacular fall colors and beautiful winter scenes for visitors to the area. Hurry for Niagara Falls end of season voyages on the Maid of the Mist or to experience the full Journey Behind Niagara Falls. With winter comes the ice - a beautiful way to see Niagara Falls, however dress warm and be cautious. For indoor fun, Niagara On The Lake, Ontario’s first capital city is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Shaw Festival along with the bicentennial of its role in the War of 1812. Cornwall and the Seaway Valley in south eastern Ontario offers fall visitors outstanding fall scenery. Kingston, Canada’s first capital, is an ideal blend of history and cutting edge activities. Enjoy a visit to southern Ontario.

Niagara Falls hosts one of Ontario’s best winter festivals. The Winter Festival of Lights in Niagara Falls is Canada’s largest lights festival. The 2011 festival runs November 5th through January 31st featuring amazing illumination and light displays, outdoor ice-skating on the Brink of Horseshoe Falls, and the Christmas Concert Series.

Sponsored by CAA, Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights is an ideal holiday getaway. Ignite the excitement of the season as you watch spectacular fireworks exploding over Niagara Falls. Fireworks shows are either Friday or Saturday from November through the end of January. Join the launch of CAA Winter Festival of Lights on November 5th and enjoy special Guests from Walt Disney World Resort. Be there when the switch goes on for the 29th annual event, lighting up the City of Niagara Falls and the Niagara Parks Winter Wonderland.

Niagara On The Lake, 20-miles north of Niagara Falls, hosts the 50th anniversary of Shaw Festival in 2011. Now with four theater venues, there is a wide selection of productions by George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries. The 2011 season of the Shaw Festival concludes the end of October; don’t miss the chance to enjoy one of 2011’s performances.

Ontario’s Niagara region was a centre of conflict during the War of 1812. Niagara On The Lake honors its history with Bicentennial celebration events of the war, scheduled from 2011 through 2014. Join history buffs at the Courthouse in Niagara On The Lake on November 20th for the Symposium, Images of Niagara on the Eve of War. Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor, the Honourable David Onley, visits on January 1st 2012, to celebrate the first official event of the War of 1812 at a New Year’s Levee.

2011 Halloween brings the “True Fear Haunted Funeral Home” to Guelph at the Haunted House of Horrors. If you dare, visit one of southern Ontario’s largest and most elaborate haunted destinations across from Stone Road Mall, at the corner of Stone road and Edinburgh. Guelph’s Haunted House of Horrors is open Halloween weekend and the weekend prior.

Southern Ontario and Niagara Falls Hotel Map