Maid of the Mist Lease Ordered Reopened: Ontario Calls for End of Monopoly on Dubious Glynn Lease (Analysis‪)‬

After a year and a half of the Niagara Falls Reporter pounding out stories, Ontario's tourism minister Monique Smith last week ordered the Niagara Parks Commission (NPC) to put the Canadian concession lease for the Maid of the Mist--presently held by Lewiston businessman James Glynn--out to bid. This means for the first time Glynn will be facing competition for the right to offer boat tours in the lower Niagara River just under the falls. He has held a monopoly to provide boat tours on both the American and Canadian sides of the lower Niagara pool--one of the premier water attractions in the world--for 38 years.