Highlights: Port Colborne Celebrates Canal Days with the Stanley Cup!
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Highlights: Port Colborne Celebrates Canal Days with the Stanley Cup!
Port Colborne is a working marine community, with rich nautical history and welcoming hospitality. At the height of summer, the entire city takes time to celebrate, through the Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival, the reasons why this picturesque town has grown and prospered – its marine heritage and connection to the St. Lawrence Seaway and the seafaring world at large.
Canal Days is Port Colborne’s signature event. This year The Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival took place July 29-August 1, 2011.  The event while always changing up its activities and attractions had a few firsts, including a visit from the Stanley Cup! On Saturday July 30th, the Stanley Cup made its maiden voyage down the Welland Canal aboard the Niagara Region Police Service Boat lead by the E.M. Cotter Fireboat out of Buffalo and the Canadian Coast Guard boat Isle Rouge, with Adam Creighton, former NHL Player and the Boston Bruins Scout who currently resides in Port Colborne.
Over 200 local volunteers worked tirelessly to make this unique event Niagara’s premier summer festival. Other activities and attractions at the event included Tall Ships, where visitors could explore the decks, try their hand at the wheel or take a cruise on Lake Erie. At the Port Colborne Marine Museum the history of the Canal was on display, and heritage artisans could be seen working their trade. The festival also boasted a car show, crafts, concerts and food during the four days.
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