 | This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Cedar Island" Niagara River – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
43°04′38″N 79°04′39″W / 43.077142°N 79.0775°W / 43.077142; -79.0775
Cedar Island was a small, uninhabited and elongated island located in the Niagara River near the Canadian shore, opposite the Table Rock observation area at the brink of the Horseshoe Falls.
History
The island was occupied by Isaac Swayze in 1804. Swayze could not build anything but his wooden house leading to the island being undeveloped. By 1857, strong currents caused erosion which reduced the island to two acres. In 1857, Samuel Street obtained the lease for Cedar Island. He built a fifty-foot wooden observation tower on top of a house.
In 1905, the Canadian Niagara Power Company built a hydroelectric generating plant on Cedar Island. The power station became the William Birch Power Station. Due to the power plant, Cedar Island became nonexistent as a result of the land filling. The remnants of Cedar Island are located where the Power station is.
References
- "Niagara Falls : The Islands - A History". www.niagarafrontier.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2007. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
 | This Ontario location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |
 | This article related to an island or group of islands in Canada is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |