Water comes all the way across the Niagara peninsula from Lake Erie, through a series of canals, and tumbles over the Escarpment in concrete and steel penstocks. They feed the water into power stations at the base of the escarpment.

This ridge of land – the Niagara escarpment - was a natural geologic and navigational beacon for First Nations. Laura Secord would have used it like that too. And she knew that further upstream she would have had to scale those very slopes.

Imagine how daunting the prospect must have seemed to her.

Maja Bannerman (as the voice of Laura Secord) and Santee Smith talk about the cultural importance of the Niagara Escarpment landscape.

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