{"title":"Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONTARIO\u003c\/strong\u003e | \u003cem\u003e\"The Prettiest Town in Canada\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNiagara-on-the-Lake is the best preserved 19th-century town in Canada — a grid of Georgian and Regency houses rebuilt after American forces burned the original settlement in 1813 and reconstructed with such architectural consistency that the streetscape has been essentially unchanged for 200 years. The Shaw Festival, the only theatre in the world dedicated to the work of George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, has defined the town's cultural identity since 1962 and draws audiences from across North America for its nine-month season of up to twelve productions across four performance spaces. The surrounding Niagara Peninsula wine country — the most productive wine region in Canada, where the Lake Ontario effect moderates the climate into something approaching Burgundy — extends the town's identity far beyond heritage tourism into one of the country's most serious gastronomic destinations on the continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe palette is the wine country in its two defining seasons: deep green Chardonnay and Riesling vines against the pale blue of Lake Ontario in summer, and the extraordinary amber and gold of the vine canopy in October when the harvest is complete and the Niagara Escarpment turns to every shade of the Burgundy autumn that the region's winemakers use as their aspirational reference point.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"niagara-on-the-lake-ontario-original-series-gallery-canvas","title":"Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario | Original Series Gallery Canvas | The Painted Passport®","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONTARIO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNiagara-on-the-Lake is the most perfectly preserved Loyalist town in Canada — a small community at the mouth of the Niagara River on the western shore of Lake Ontario, where the late-Georgian and Regency architecture of a town founded by United Empire Loyalists after the American Revolution survives in a concentration of heritage commercial buildings, white-shuttered clapboard houses, and the specific quiet dignity of a main street that has changed in character very little since the 1820s. Queen Street, the main commercial thoroughfare, presents one of the most handsome streetscapes in Ontario — a row of two- and three-storey buildings in warm golden limestone, red brick, and painted clapboard, with the green copper dome of the old courthouse rising above the rooflines, the bare winter trees lacing their branches across the pale grey sky, and the Owl and the Pussycat bookshop and the LCBO occupying storefronts that have housed one kind of commerce or another for two centuries. The town sits at the heart of the Niagara Peninsula wine region, surrounded by Riesling and Cabernet Franc vineyards, and the combination of the historic townscape, the Shaw Festival theatre, the proximity of Niagara Falls, and the wine route through the Twenty Valley makes it one of the most visited small towns in Canada and one of the most evocative places in Ontario in the quiet of the off-season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis high-quality canvas print brings the quiet architectural beauty and the specific cool palette of Niagara-on-the-Lake in winter into your living space — the warm golden limestone and red brick of the heritage facades, the green copper dome against the pale grey winter sky, the deep teal of the clapboard siding on the left, and the bare branches of the trees tracing their pattern across the composition. A beautiful reminder of the most elegantly preserved Georgian town on the Canadian shore of Lake Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Printify","offers":[{"title":"10\" x 8\" (Horizontal) \/ 1.25\"","offer_id":45723213725798,"sku":"34871906170234472913","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16″ x 12″ (Horizontal) \/ 1.25\"","offer_id":45723213758566,"sku":"25063449100378514909","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"24″ x 18″ (Horizontal) \/ 1.25\"","offer_id":45723213791334,"sku":"30850832981034213541","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/9580\/9894\/files\/CopyofGridTemplate_14.png?v=1781274462"},{"product_id":"niagara-on-the-lake-ontario-digital-watercolor-hardboard-coaster","title":"Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario | Original Series Hardboard Coaster | The Painted Passport®","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONTARIO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNiagara-on-the-Lake is the most perfectly preserved Loyalist town in Canada — a small community at the mouth of the Niagara River where the late-Georgian architecture of a United Empire Loyalist town survives in warm golden limestone, red brick, and painted clapboard facades on Queen Street, with the green copper dome of the old courthouse rising above the rooflines and bare winter trees lacing across a pale grey Ontario sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis premium coaster not only protects your surfaces but also serves as a beautiful small window to a far-off place. 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