Our friendly staff is here to greet you and answer all your questions about the Welland Canal. Please feel free to ask them for your copy of the Tommy Trent, ABC’s of the Welland Canal. A small pocketbook loaded with all the information you need on the Welland Canal. In addition, your taste buds will be treated to a complimentary Canadian Maple Syrup cookie. What a better treat to tide you over until lunch or dinner.

Feeling hungry? Located just inside the complex is the “Kissing Rock Cafe”. The café is open daily and serves up delicious homemade treats, coffee, and specialty teas. Enjoy the ships pass you by as you sip on a hot beverage from our outdoor viewing platform.

Interested in learning more about the Canal? We offer you the opportunity to watch a movie about the history of the Welland Canal? Our complex can accommodate a group of up to 50 people.

If history is your niche, please feel free to peruse over 60 historical pictures located throughout our complex. You will be delighted so see that much of Thorold has remained the same throughout the years.

A small Gift Shop highlighting local artists, nautical and Kissing Rock items is located inside the Complex. If you are looking for specialty jams, one of a kind jewellry, just the right book about ships or commerative Kissing Rock souvenirs, we are sure you will be delighted in the gift shop. Open daily.

Lock 7 is Coach Friendly.
Wheelchair accessible

Links – Welland Canals Centre – www.stcatharines.ca

Terry M. Dow
Director of Tourism Services
City of Thorold

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