Port Dalhousie: Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax

D.A. Curtis was a Toronto freelance writer.

The story of Port Dalhousie (pronounced Daloozie, not Dal-Housie, as one might suppose) is a well-produced local history, incorporating many period black and white photographs of the bustling lakeside village that in 1961 finally became, officially, a part of St. Catharines. This affectionate look at The Port, from the arrival in 1784 of the United Empire Loyalists, until 1984, when Port Dalhousie again took on a period flavor, appearing as the 19th century setting for the film The Boy In Blue, will be a source of nostalgic pleasure to those lucky enough to remember “the good old days.” A bibliography is included.