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​GENERAL TOUR INFORMATION​​​
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  • A minimum of 25 participants are required for a visitor experience specialist to step on board your bus
  • Contact us about group rates ​
  • The rate includes entry into the Salem Chapel  
  • Tours range from 4 to 7 hours
  • All tours start with the HARRIET TUBMAN TOUR      
  • All tours incorporate Niagara’s Freedom Trail - Black history sites
  • All tours travel along parts of the Lower Niagara River Parkway and include a stop at the Table Rock Welcome Centre located at the brink of Canada’s magnificent Horseshoe Falls​
  • School group tours are available and suitable for children 10 years old and up
  • Customized tours are available
  • Our tours include a non-paid – quick stop – food, refreshments and souvenirs - lunch can also be arranged
  • ​Itinerary times are about +/- 20 to 30 minutes because of possible road construction, changes in traffic patterns, weather conditions, and other unforeseen possibilities​ ​
  • Tours are available from mid-April to mid-October

More info about our tour requirements can be found on our Contact page

WE INCORPORATE OFF THE BEATEN PATH SITES, STORIES OF INTEREST AND NIAGARA river PARKWAY SIGHTSEEING ATTRACTIONS WITH OUR 
NARRATED UNDERGROUND RAILROAD ~ BLACK HISTORY TOURS.
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HARRIET TUBMAN TOUR    ~    ST. CATHARINES​
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THIS NARRATED BLACK HISTORY TOUR IS ABOUT HARRIET TUBMAN, THE TOWN AND PEOPLE WHERE SHE lived AND THE CHURCH WHERE SHE WORSHIPpED. VISITOR GROUPS WILL STAND ON HALLOWED GROUND AT THE SALEM CHAPEL, VIEW HISTORIC LANDMARKS and pass through A picturesque hamlet before travelling ALONG NIAGARA'S WORLD FAMOUS SIGHTSEEING PARKWAY TO REACH the CLIFTON HILL and TABLE ROCK centre ATTRACTIONS AND THE MAGNIFICENT HORSESHOE FALLS.
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TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
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  • ​Visitors will enter the Salem Chapel where “the Moses of her people” worshipped ​
  • Discover the chapel’s connection to the African Methodist Episcopal Church
  • Hear about some of the heroic and hairbreadth escapes that ended in St. Catharines, with and without Tubman
  • Learn about the first Black settler in St. Catharines
  • Discover Niagara’s leading white anti-slavery activist 
  • Visit the crossing point where Harriet Tubman entered Canada​
  • Explore the city where the radical abolitionist John Brown met “General Tubman”
  • Discover what a small group of covert Southerners were doing in a British Canadian town that harboured hundreds of fugitives 
  • ​​Learn about the early Black Baptist community
  • Stop at the final resting place of a freedom seeker whose capture incited one of the largest anti-slavery riots in American history​
  • ​Find out why a resident runaway would boldly claim that, “white folks can’t catch Moses”
 
  • DURATION: 4 - 4.5 HOURS ​​​​
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        NOTE: The per person price for our exclusive HARRIET TUBMAN TOUR includes the per person admission fee to enter the
​        Salem Chapel, British Methodist Episcopal Church Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historic Sites.
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EXTEND YOUR HARRIET TUBMAN TOUR
WITH THE ​FOLLOWING NARRATED HISTORY TOUR ​
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lower niagara tour    ~​    NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE ~ QUEENSTON ~ NIAGARA FALLS 
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three CENTURIES OF BLACK HISTORY ARE COVERED IN THIS escorted TOUR. VISITOR GROUPS WILL ENJOY A SCENIC DRIVE THROUGH NIAGARA’S WINE COUNTRY TO REACH THE "PRETTIEST TOWN IN ONTARIO" AND CONNECT WITH THE lower NIAGARA RIVER. VISITORs WILL TRAVEL ALONG THE mighty RIVER AND STOP AT A SACRED BATTLE GROUND before continuing ALONG the niagara PARKWAY to REACH the table rock centre and niagara falls ATTRACTIONS. ​
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​TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
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  • View the site of one of the oldest Black cemeteries in Niagara ​
  • Learn about a fierce white abolitionist and public figure who tried to end slavery in Upper Canada
  • Hear about a leading Black family’s connection to the areas oldest white church
  • See the site where a prominent and former member of the CSA administration vacationed
  • Find out about the establishment of a Black military unit that was later used to patrol a large group of local white labourer’s
  • Discover the mistreatment of an enslaved Black woman that brought about the first British Act  to limit slavery
  • Learn about a US enslaver’s attempt to recapture a runaway slave accused of horse stealing 
  • Walk the grounds of a historic battlefield where courageous Black men took up arms alongside their allies to defend their British homeland from an American invasion
 
  • DURATION: 2.5 HOURS     
  • TOTAL TIME: 7 - 7.5 HOURS
  • ADDITIONAL RATES APPLY​​
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​"NO ONE WILL TAKE ME BACK ALIVE; I SHALL FIGHT FOR MY LIBERTY, AND WHEN THE TIME HAS COME FOR ME TO GO, THE LORD WILL LET THEM KILL ME." ​HARRIET TUBMAN, 1868

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