Welcome to our new website!

We’re completing maintenance and upgrades to the background systems for our website that may temporarily impact the user experience.

  • There may be some broken links to files and other webpages
  • Catharine, the AI Digital Assistant on our website, and the search bar are down
  • Users may encounter 404 errors when accessing the webpages site from browser search results

Can’t find what you’re looking or need assistance? Contact Citizens First or 905.688.5600.

These impacts are temporary and should be resolved shortly. Your patience and understanding is appreciated.

Happy St. Catharines Day

- Apr 30, 2026

This news item about the Act to Incorporate the City of St. Catharines coming into effect, appeared in the Hamilton Spectator on May 1, 1876.

The Act to Incorporate the City of St. Catharines came into effect on May 1st, 1876. This news item appeared in the Hamilton Spectator on that same day.

According to this article, citizens were celebrating beginning at midnight with a torchlight procession and bonfire and continuing on into the morning.

A holiday was declared for May 1st and local businesses were closed so celebrations to mark this momentous occasion could continue unabated. If The Hamilton Spectator is to be believed, some chose to mark the date with drinking and carousing and had to be carried home!

Subscribe Back to News Search

Contact Us

50 Church St.
PO Box 3012
St. Catharines ON L2R 7C2

Email Us
Tel: 905.688.5600
TTY: Type 711 for the operator

Sign up to our News, Notices and Updates

Stay up to date on the City's activities, events, programs and operations by subscribing to our News, Notices and Updates.

Sign Up Today!