27 Facts About St Catharines

St Catharines is the largest city in Canada's Niagara Region and the sixth largest urban area in the province of Ontario.

St Catharines is between the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and the Canada–U.

St Catharines'storians have speculated that Dick's Creek was named after Richard Pierpoint, a Black Loyalist and former American slave, due to an oral history account and events that had taken place around that time that would be consistent with Pierpoint being the source of the name.

St Catharines did this from his mill, built on the 12 Mile Creek in Power Glen.

St Catharines remains an important place in Black Canadian history.

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The name St Catharines was first recorded in 1796 and became a common name for the settlement by 1809—though it would often be spelled with an -er, or with an apostrophe before the s The name and the spelling was standardized as St Catharines when the town incorporated in 1845.

St Catharines was once at the base of a glacial lake known as Glacial Lake Iroquois, which deposited thick layers of clay between the Escarpment and Lake Ontario.

The historical area of St Catharines consisted of nothing more than what is the downtown core, with the remaining land being part of Louth Township on the west and Grantham Township on the east.

St Catharines continued to steadily grow through the late 19th and early 20th centuries, eventually annexing land to the southwest that would become Western Hill and Old Glenridge, and to the east and north that would collectively become the central part of St Catharines.

St Catharines continued to annex Grantham Township as development continued, including the large swaths of land to the north known now as "The North End".

St Catharines would absorb Merritton and Port Dalhousie in 1961, making them part of the city.

Since 1998, St Catharines has had one of the highest obesity rates of any centre in Canada.

St Catharines was the location of a transmission plant for General Motors.

St Catharines was one of the cities that hosted the 2022 Canada Summer Games.

St Catharines entered into the Ontario Hockey Association Junior 'A' Hockey in 1943 as the St Catharines Falcons.

The AHL St Catharines Saints played in St Catharines between 1982 and 1986, before being forced to re-locate to Newmarket due to protests from the NHL Buffalo Sabres.

The St Catharines Saints served as the farm team for the Toronto Maple Leafs, and today are known as the Toronto Marlies.

Canadian Soccer League's St Catharines Wolves are one of the most successful professional soccer teams in Canada, and play at Club Roma in the west-end of the city.

Several Olympic medallists in rowing are from St Catharines, including Melanie Kok, Buffy Williams, and Dave Boyes.

St Catharines uses a council-manager government, and as a result a chief administrative officer is appointed by council to oversee the day-to-day operations of the city and its departments.

At the provincial level, St Catharines is well known for electing high-profile members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

From 1999 to 2003, during the premierships of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves, St Catharines was the only large city in Ontario to not have at least one government member representing the city, as the Progressive Conservative-held ridings of Lincoln and St Catharines—Brock were eliminated as a cost-saving measure.

Federally, St Catharines is one of the most bellwether of any riding in Canada, having only elected an opposition MP twice in its history.

Chris Bittle is the current MP for St Catharines and is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, which currently forms Canada's government.

St Catharines is the judicial seat of the Niagara North Judicial District of Ontario, Central South Region, which represents the northern half of the Niagara Region equivalent to historic Lincoln County.

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St Catharines had one of the first interurban electric streetcar routes, which ran between the city and Merritton and was eventually extended to Port Dalhousie in the north and Thorold to the south.

St Catharines is home to Brock University, a modern comprehensive university on the Niagara Escarpment.