The city of Port Colborne’s signature summer festival continues this long weekend with the final day of Canal Days on Monday.
The event celebrates the history and heritage along the Welland Canal which connects Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and is an important part of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Festival-goers can tour lighthouses and tall ships and take in family entertainment.
Provincial NDP leader Marit Stiles was at the Port Colborne Historical and Marine Museum on Sunday.
“This celebration is so fun, and what I love about it is that there are so many families out here celebrating the community, the region, it’s lovely, and also the fact that so much of it is powered by volunteers,” Stiles told CHCH.
The Museum was the host of the first Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival, which is now in its 46th year.
Canal Days started in 1979 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the building of the first Welland Canal.