Maid of the Mist

Maid of the Mist is the title of a boat tour at Niagara Falls. The existing since 1846 tour is one of the oldest continuously existing tourist facilities in the world. The tour is offered by a family company which has its head office in Canada, but a part of an American family. In 2012, the ships Maid of the Mist IV, Maid of the Mist V, Maid of the Mist Maid of the Mist VI and VII, which can carry 300 to 600 passengers drive.

Boats

• Maid of the Mist IV Capacity 300 passengers. Sets from the U.S..
• Maid of the Mist V. Capacity 300 passengers. Sets from the U.S..
• Maid of the Mist VI. Capacity 582 passengers. Put off in Canada.
• Maid of the Mist VII capacity 582 passengers. Put off in Canada.

History

Today about 20 minute-long tour on the Niagara River starts since 1846 something upstream of the Rainbow Bridge, where there are investors both on the American and the Canadian shore. The Maid passed the American Falls, and then go to the center of the Horseshoe Falls. The tour takes you as close to the falls that tourists gotten large amounts of water. Already in the 19th century, travelers were therefore equipped with oilskins. Meanwhile, these have been replaced by baggy Once films.

Before the Maid of the Mist there was already a cable ferry that crossed the flow and untiefenreiche Niagara Gorge. Maid of the Mist should replace it. But after 1848, the first bridge was built at Niagara Falls, the ride was no longer profitable. The owner decided to tourists to drive directly into the Horseshoe Falls. The first boat of that name, a steamer of wood was, in 1854, complemented by another Maid of the Mist, a steamer of steel. The name goes back to an alleged Legend of the Native Americans, but this is an invention of the first boat operators.