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(03-24-2014 09:38 AM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  As for places Lincoln visited - one usually reads he had never travelled abroad. But I wonder if he perhaps set a foot onto Canadian soil when he visited the Niagara Falls?

Eva, I think it's likely that he did set foot on Canadian soil. On July 22, 1857, the Lincoln family departed Springfield for a trip to New York. On July 24, they were registered at the Cataract House in Niagara Falls. Not a lot is really known of this trip.

On September 20, 1857, Mary Lincoln wrote a letter to Emilie Todd Helm. In the letter she mentioned the trip and said, "The summer has so strangely and rapidly passed away. Some portion of it was spent most pleasantly in traveling East. We visited Niagara, Canada, New York, and other points of interest."