Crystal Beach (Fort Erie, Ontario)
Crystal Beach , Ontario is a town that is part of the city of Fort Erie and has a population of 3,800. The name of the place was chosen because of the crystal clear water and the fine sandy beach, which is more than three kilometers long. Crystal Beach is located on northeast Lake Erie and across from Buffalo , USA.
history
From 1888 to 1989 the "Crystal Beach Amusement Park" was located on the lake. When it was opened in 1888, there were 20,000 visitors a day who even came from the Buffalo on the opposite side by steamboat. Most of the visitors came to celebrate Memorial Day and Labor Day during the summer. The steamers were named "Canadiana" and "Americana", each carried 3,000 passengers and commuted until 1956. The park was famous for its Crystal Beach Cyclone , which opened in 1927, among other things . In 1930 the amusement park employees were assigned an area on a hill on which smaller houses were built near the beach so that they could live close to their workplaces. The area is now called Crystal Beach Hill and includes 43 residential buildings from which you can see the whole beach. When the theme park closed, the small residential community of Crystal Beach Hill developed into a small community. Since 1989 there has been a tennis and yacht club on the site of the former leisure park.
present
Even today, Crystal Beach is a vacation and tourist attraction for Canadians and Americans as well as foreign tourists who spend their summer holidays there.
Web links
- Fort Erie - Crystal Beach Website , (English)
Coordinates: 42 ° 52 ′ N , 79 ° 4 ′ W