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Piller and Post
it is referred to by the locales. Situated off the main street, it is a short fifteen-minute walk from the many stores and restaurants lined up to greet the daily onslaught of visitors from all parts of the globe. It has been 212 years since the War of 1812, but the town still feels connected to its vibrant past. At the entrance to Fort George, cannons are polished and gleaming as tour buses pull up and eager visitors arrive. Throughout the hotel, floors creak and history oozes around every corner. Constructed in the 1890’s, the building first housed a canning factory manufacturing some of Niagara’s finest produce. The upper floors of the building were converted to a storeroom for Polish forces training in the area in 1914, but it remained an active cannery until finally closing its doors in 1957.
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