LILACS, LUNCH & WALKING
On Tuesday May 29, 2018, the Rotary Club of Niagara Falls held their 10th annual Lilac Luncheon. Fifty years ago the club purchased 100 lilac bushes to build the Memorial Lilac gardens. But, this year, the club wanted to learn about the Indigenous people whose land this once was. Jim Hill, the superintendent of heritage for the Niagara Parks Commission took the Rotarians on a walking tour of Queenston Heights after speaking to them during lunchtime about the role that Indigenous people played during the Battle of Queenston Heights. Jim Hill was an amazing guest speaker and shared with the Rotarians that they were eating lunch at the spot where 12,000 years ago, it was part of “massive” Lake Iroquois, which started draining out toward the Atlantic Ocean. What a fantastic Lilac Lunch and learning experience!