NIAGARA BOUND TOURS
87 Masterson Drive
St. Catharines, ON  L2T 3P8
905-685-5375
www.niagaraboundtours.com

An Underground Railroad Era Tour

Niagara Bound Tours is an attraction tour company established in 2004 in the Niagara region that specializes in quality, customized Underground Railroad era and Black history tours known as the “The Crossing Point Tour.”  Our goal is to provide our clients with an unique insight into the migration of Afro-Americans as they escaped slavery in the mid-19th century and settle in southern Ontario, Canada.  We create experiences that capture the essence of what was faced by those forced to flee the slave states.  As well as giving the historical perspective, local stories will also be told.  The success of Niagara Bound Tours is based upon our explemary knowledge of the period as it relates to this region, our customer service and our tour content.

Our customized tours include a step on guide who is a direct descendant (fifth generation) of a freedom seeker from Kentucky whom came to Canada in 1850 settling in the Niagara Region. 

Recently added are our tours of the Buffalo-Niagara Underground Railroad tours as well.  Also, for those who prefer bike tour, join us for a bike tour where the Anti-Slavery Act of 1793 was signed in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada.

All of our tours are customized to suit all budgets, all time frames and all groups with special attention given to student tours.  Lunches, dinners or bagged lunches may also be included.  Let Niagara Bound Tours with many years of experience in travel and tourism with its focus on exemplary customer service, providing friendly, flexible, informative tours that are fun as well as entertaining.

Niagara Bound Tours has/is affiliated with St. Catharines Tourism, Toronto Tourism, the Buffalo-Niagara CVB, Niagara USA Tourism and Conventions, Buffalo-Niagara Tourism Professionals, Niagara Falls Tourism, Fort Erie Tourism Advisory Committee, and the Niagara-on-the-Lake Chamber of Commerce.
Recent membership to Travel Professionals of Color where in 2009, Lezlie Harper Wells, owner of Niagara Bound Tours was named TPOC’s Canadian representative.

SITES THAT CAN BE INCLUDED

• Various safe havens for freedom seekers on both sides of the border
• Crossing sites of freedom seekers on both sides of the border including the Canadian site of for the crossing of Josiah Henson (Uncle Tom’s Cabin character)
• Church attended by Harriet Tubman
• Welland Canal Centre – home of permanent Black history exhibit
• A church in Buffalo that housed freedom seekers before they came to Canada
• A tour of a farmhouse and the site where it is believed freedom seekers were hidden until safe passage was secured for Canada
• Cemeteries
• Colored Musicians Club

And much, much more