We are very attentive to the traffic on the QEW as this is one of the busiest days of the year. In fact, the entire weekend. People travelling into Niagara Falls for the splendid double fireworks. People travelling out of Niagara returning from the U.S. There don't seem to be any statistics since the solar eclipse.
To make your holiday experience complete here is a youtube video of the Falls Fireworks Show. This looks like it is only the CA side - this weekend will have both sides with a double show. This is the Canadian side:
This has some pretty spectacular views of the Falls - one is right over the edge looking down into the falls.
And the story of Indigenous peoples sending a young virgin over the Falls as a sacrifice to the spirit living under the Falls? A colonial story made up. One European version of the myth has LeLawala being offered to God Thunder in a human sacrifice.
"This version was created in the 17th century to pass on the idea, in the European society, that the Indians were savages who practiced human sacrifices and that, therefore, deserved to be conquered and civilized."
Now we get to perform self-sacrifice by travelling the QEW on holiday weekends.
Here's another abstract from the Monterey Aquarium.
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