Definitions
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- proper noun A river in North America flowing to the north from
Lake Erie toLake Ontario and including theNiagara Falls .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario; forms boundary between Ontario and New York
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was a party that settled at Oyouwayea, or Johnson's landing place, on lake Ontario, about four miles east of the mouth of Niagara River, which is at the mouth of the four-mile creek, for the purpose of getting out of the centre of the other Indians which were for the British.
Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians Elias Johnson
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The frontier on the Niagara River was the chief danger point and the
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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Water in the upper Niagara River, which is controlled by an international agency, rushes over the falls in March at a minimum rate of 374,025 gallons per second.
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Just on the outskirts north of the city and on the edge of the Niagara River is the New York State Niagara Power Project-The Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant in Lewiston.
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Tonawanda Coke sits on a plateau overlooking the Niagara River.
The Center for Public Integrity: Where regulators failed, citizens took action -- testing their own air The Center for Public Integrity 2011
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To make up his mind he enrolled in Niagara University, a Catholic college and seminary on the New York bank of the Niagara River separating the United States from Canada.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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To make up his mind he enrolled in Niagara University, a Catholic college and seminary on the New York bank of the Niagara River separating the United States from Canada.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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The double-decker boats ferry people from both sides of the Niagara River to the base of the Horseshoe Falls under separate agreements with New York state and Ontario.
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NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario -- Authorities say a woman is presumed to have drowned after being swept over Niagara Falls when she fell from a railing along the Canadian side of the Niagara River.
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Vessels can use the multiple locks of the Welland Canal, which connect the two lakes a little over ten miles west of the Niagara River, which forms the boundary between the United States and Canada.
Henry J. Stern: Inconvenient Truths Henry J. Stern 2011
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