Fort Erie
Fort Erie is a town of about 33,000 people in the Niagara Region. It is directly across the river from Buffalo, New York, and is the site of Old Fort Erie which played a prominent role in the War of 1812.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 30,700 residents
- Description: town in Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Fort Erie, ON” and “Fort Erie, Ontario”
- Neighbors: Niagara Falls and Port Colborne
Places of Interest
Highlights include Peace Bridge and Old Fort Erie.
Peace Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Óðinn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Peace Bridge is an international bridge over the Niagara River between Canada and the United States, located just north of the river's source at the east end of Lake Erie about 20 kilometres upriver of Niagara Falls.
Old Fort Erie
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Old Fort Erie, also known as Fort Erie, or the Fort Erie National Historic Site of Canada, was the first British fort to be constructed as part of a network developed after the Seven Years' War was concluded by the Treaty of Paris, at which time France ceded its territories east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain.
Fort Erie Race Track
Athletics track
Fort Erie Race Track is a horse racing facility in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, that opened on June 16, 1897. The racetrack is often referred to as "the border oval" because of the track's proximity to the U.S. border.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Side and Elmwood Village.
West Side
Photo: AndreCarrotflower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Elmwood Village
Photo: AndreCarrotflower, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Allentown and the Delaware District
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Allentown and the Delaware District are two neighborhoods in Buffalo that are adjacent to each other and north of downtown. These two areas are among the most desirable neighborhoods in the city today, and, much more than most other areas of Buffalo, were able to retain their charm, affluence, and safety throughout Buffalo's dark days from the 1960s to the turn of the millennium.
Fort Erie
- Categories: lower-tier municipality of Ontario, border city, and locality
- Location: Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude
42.9131° or 42° 54′ 47″ northLongitude
-78.9186° or 78° 55′ 7″ westPopulation
30,700Elevation
183 metres (600 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA FEROpen location code
87J3W37J+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1829281751OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Fort Erie” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورت إيري”
- Asturian: “Fort Erie”
- Atikamekw: “Fort Érié”
- Bavarian: “Fort Erie”
- Cebuano: “Fort Erie”
- Chinese: “伊利堡”
- Czech: “Fort Erie”
- Dutch: “Fort Erie”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فورت ايرى”
- French: “Fort Érié”
- German: “Fort Erie”
- Italian: “Fort Erie”
- Japanese: “フォートエリー”
- Pennsylvania German: “Fort Erie, Ontario”
- Pennsylvania German: “Fort Erie”
- Persian: “فورت اری”
- Polish: “Fort Erie”
- Portuguese: “Fort Erie”
- Russian: “Форт-Эри”
- Serbian: “Форт Ири”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Erie”
- Slovak: “Fort Erie”
- Spanish: “Fort Erie (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Fort Erie”
- Swedish: “Fort Erie”
- Turkish: “Fort Erie”
- Ukrainian: “Форт-Ері”
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