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Quality Inn Clifton Hill offers you an exciting School Break Package!
Please inquire today, as this package is limited and offered on selected dates.

Our School Break Package includes:

• Two nights accommodation at the Quality Inn Clifton Hill, Kids Stay Free!
  
• One large pizza, with two items, at Boston Pizza
  
• 20 tokens for the Great Canadian Midway
  
• Full breakfast for 2 people each morning at the Golden Griddle Family Restaurant. Your choice of: Pancakes, French Toast, or Bacon and Eggs
  
• Three combo passes for our most popular Clifton Hill Attractions. Each Combo pass includes one admission (adult or child) to : Movieland Wax Museum of Stars, Ghostblasters Dark Ride, & Fun Express Simulator Ride
• All taxes are included!

To make your reservations choose one of the following options:
1. Call our reservations office at 1.800.263.7137
2. E-mail us at quality@cliftonhill.com

For years, ice bridges have formed in the Niagara Gorge winter after winter with few exceptions. They were caused by slush and ice flowing over the Falls. The ice became choked in the gorge and would freeze into a solid mass forming the world famous “ice bridge”.

Up until the year 1912, when three people were swept away when the ice bridge broke apart, the public was allowed to cross the river in winter on the ice that would form. For many years, it was the only way to cross the river in winter, until bridges were built across the Niagara Gorge. Thousands of people would gather on the ice bridge to see the awesome ice formations and to play on the “bridge”. One favorite activity was tobogganing down the ice mountains that would form at the American Falls. 

Some winters the ice formations would be so enormous, the water and ice would cause extensive shoreline and property damage along the river to Niagara-on-the-Lake and the mouth of Lake Ontario. The Maid of the Mist boats and docks were damaged numerous times as well as the Ontario Power Generating Station. 

Since 1964, an ice boom has been stretched across the mouth of the Niagara River at Lake Erie. It has kept the ice buildup in Lake Erie from flowing into the lower gorge of the Niagara River causing an ice bridge. The ice bridge, although a spectacular sight, was much too destructive and most importantly, threatened to jam up and plug the Hydro Station water intakes.

Here are a few links to some picture postcards from the early 1900’s of the ice bridges that would form, and the Falls in winter:

http://www.ebpm.com/niag/regpix/glry_niag_w-icebr.html

http://www.ebpm.com/niag/regpix/glry_niag_sv-icebr.html

For more information on the History the ice bridge, click on this link: http://www.iaw.com/~falls/icebridge.html

Hope to see you soon at Clifton Hill Resorts!

Sales and Marketing Team
Clifton Hill Resorts
4960 Clifton Hill, P.O. Box 60
Niagara Falls, Ontario,
Canada, L2E 6S8

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