Port Colborne

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Port Colborne

(kōl`bərn), town (1991 pop. 18,766), S Ont., Canada, on Lake Erie, at the south end of the Welland Ship Canal. It is an important transshipment center between Montreal and points to the west. It has a nickel refinery, grain elevators, and a cement plant.

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Contractor address : 3 Lake Rd, Port Colborne, ON L3K 1A2

Disposal Of The Royal Canadian Navys (rcn) Former Iroquois-class Destroyer, Hmcs Athabaskan

A contract worth $12,616,144 has been awarded to Marine Recycling Corporation of Port Colborne, Ontario, for the disposal of the Royal Canadian Navy's former HMCS Preserver AOR supply ship.

The disposal of HMCS preserver

In a telephone interview, Albano revealed that while growing up in Port Colborne he was always interested in theatre.

michael ALBANO

Vale, the Brazilian mining company that bought Inco in 2006, immediately cut labour costs, which led to long strikes at the Sudbury and Port Colborne operations in 2009, and at Voisey's Bay in Labrador.

Brave New Canada: Meeting the Challenge of a Changing World

The feint succeeded to an extent, as LCol George Peacocke led a militia force to Chippewa while ordering LCol Alfred Booker to Port Colborne.

The Fenian raids: part 1: a battle won in a lost war--Ridgeway

Caption: Fares, Bilal, Jana and Hiba at their new home in Port Colborne, Ont.

Church-sponsored Syrian refugees arrive in Port Colborne

Erie, Gardenville, Grover Cleveland, Terrace, Hamburg, Harris Hill, Kenmore, Kenilworth, Lackawanna, Lancaster, North Tonawanda, Orchard Park, Port Colborne, Sloan, Soldiers Place, Tonawanda, West Seneca, Winchester, Williamsville and more.

LiceDoctors Head Lice Treatment Service Rolls Into Buffalo, NY and Surrounding Areas

Thursday evening's opening reception in the Port Colborne lounge provided an opportunity to reconnect with old friends and to make new ones while listening to some great music by Niagara's own RiPaRi jazz trio.

Momentum 2013--moving forward

The Ontario Horticultural Association, by way of the Port Colborne Horticultural Society, planted a lovely bur oak tree at the Doan UEL Cemetery.

Col. John Butler (Niagara)

Inco refined nickel near the small southern Ontario city of Port Colborne on the north shore of Lake Erie from 1918 to 1984.

Nickel shower: an environmental class action

That didn't sit well with United Steelworkers national director Ken Neumann, whose union came through a bitter 12-month strike in Sudbury and Port Colborne, and is enduring a even longer one at Vale's operation in Voisey's Bay

Vale plans $2.5-billion investment in Sudbury: nickel miner planning its own building boom

In October 2008, Horwath wrote to ombudsman Andre Marin asking him to investigate the failure of the Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant LHIN to consult on its restructuring plan that had cut emergency rooms in Port Colborne, Fort Erie and left Hamilton Health Sciences McMaster facility without an adult emergency room.