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Take a trip into the past with Niagara 1812. Using your iPhone, visit places and people from the War of 1812 and beyond. Choose Roam Mode, walk around one of the historic towns of Niagara, Canada, and discover the stories that lie behind the bricks and mortar. Or choose Quest Mode, and solve a centuries-old mystery in an immersive adventure.

With Niagara 1812, you carry history with you, in the palm of your hand.

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OR Solve a Mystery
Roam Mode

Roam Mode

Explore at your leisure


Roam Mode is your on-demand tour guide. Using GPS, it pinpoints your location, and identifies nearby heritage sites. Interested in forts? Taverns? Churches? Heritage homes? Roam Mode takes you there. And when you arrive, it tells you the story hidden behind the walls or below the ground of historic Niagara.

Looking for nearby restaurants, accommodations, theatres, restrooms, or parking? Roam Mode takes care of that too. It knows where you are, where you want to go, and gives you the information you need to make your visit to Niagara complete.

Quest Mode

Quest Mode

Solve a mystery


An age-old mystery is waiting to be solved. Quest Mode leads you through town, helping you make discoveries about historic people and places along the way.

Onboard applications let you reveal messages hidden in ancient maps, compare pictures from the past to the real thing in the present, and decode puzzles carved into buildings or the ground, a century or more ago.

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Niagara-on-the-Lake

Roam Mode

Roam Mode

Explore at your leisure


Roam Mode knows where you are in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and can take you where you want to go. Interested in finding hidden-away Fort Mississauga? Want to locate the tavern, famous 200 years ago for its potent rum cake? What about the location of the town's oldest heritage homes?

Or are you looking for Niagara-on-the-Lake's award-winning restaurants, boutique hotels, Shaw Festival theatres, restrooms and world-class wineries? Roam Mode takes care of that too.

Quest Mode

Quest Mode

Solve a mystery


An age-old mystery is waiting to be solved. Niagara 1812: Return of the Fenian Shadow takes you on a 1.5 hour walking tour through town. With the help of your virtual tour guide, ISAAC, you make "discoveries" about historic people and places along the way. Use onboard applications to reveal messages hidden in ancient maps, compare pictures from the past to the real objects in the present, and decode puzzles that were carved into buildings or the ground, a century or more ago.

Queenston

Roam Mode

Roam Mode

Explore at your leisure


Roam Mode knows where you are in Queenston, and can take you where you want to go. Interested in finding the site where Sir Isaac Brock fell during the Battle of Queenston? Want to locate Laura Secord's homestead? What about the location of the village's oldest heritage homes?

Or are you looking for Queenston's restaurants, accommodations, or world-class wineries? Roam Mode takes care of that too.

Quest Mode

Quest Mode

Solve a mystery


An age-old mystery is waiting to be solved: in 1840, the nearby monument to war-hero Sir Isaac Brock was bombed. Suspects were named, but no one was charged with the crime. Niagara 1812: The Bomber's Plot takes you on a 45 minute walking tour through the village, helping you make discoveries about historic people and places along the way. Aided by your virtual tour guide, ISAAC, you use onboard applications to reveal messages hidden in ancient maps, and decode puzzles, apparently created a century or more ago!

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