March 2017 | Business View Magazine

210 211 Welland, Ontario Welland, Ontario, located in the center of the Niagara Region, was first settled in 1788. In 1814, near the end of the War of 1812, the Battle of Cooks Mills took place along the settlement’s eastern boundary. It was the second to last engagement, ever, between the armies of Great Britain and the United States on Canadian soil. In 1829, a wooden aqueduct was built to carry the Welland Canal over the Welland River, and the settlement became known as The Aqueduct. In 1844, a stone aqueduct replaced the wooden one, and the Bridging the past, present, and future Ontario