Queenston Limestone is the highest caliber limestone in Canada. A crinoidal calcitic dolomite, Queenston Limestone is a durable building stone with low absorption and porosity. The stone is blue-grey when quarried and weathers to a warm silver-grey within ten years. The stone being quarried today matches the superior quality known to architects, builders and masons for 180 years.
Stone products have been quarried from the Niagara Escarpment between the communities of Queenston and St. David’s in the Niagara Region for over 200 years. As the people of Southern Ontario and Canada built our modern cities and culture, stone from the Queenston Quarry played a vital structural role. Queenston Limestone provided the comfort of a warm home, memorialized our country’s losses, commemorated our shared victories, carried Ontario’s first railway, and housed the power of government. Read More.
Queenston limestone was one of the most widely used limestones in Canada and has been utilized in some of our most significant architecture, infrastructure and monuments since pre-confederation. A regimen of repair and maintenance ensures these places will be conserved for the future. Now this important work can once again be completed using Queenson limestone. Recent conservation projects include stairs at West Block, Parliament Hill, Ottawa and restoration at the Bank of Montreal, Ottawa. The long history
Cellars of Niagara on the Lake
Q Gardens – Niagara-on-the-Lake
Queenston Quarry
Q Gardens – Niagara-on-the-Lake
Q Gardens – Niagara-on-the-Lake
Q Gardens – Niagara-on-the-Lake