It was a cold, blustery day for the ceremonies marking the one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the end of the War of Eighteen-Twelve.Color parties from the Lincoln and Welland Regiment and from the New York National Guard formed the guard of honor.

The Minister of National Health and Welfare, Miss Judy LaMarsh, represented the government of Canada.Then, national flags were exchanged by the mayors of Niagara Falls, New York, and Niagara Falls, Ontario.The ceremony ended with the release of twenty-four doves of peace.