Fort Erie, Ontario

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Fort Erie
Town (lower-tier)
Town of Fort Erie
Fort Erie
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Coordinates: 42°55′N 79°01′W / 42.917°N 79.017°W / 42.917; -79.017
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Regional Municipality	Niagara
Government
• Mayor	Wayne H. Redekop
• Governing body	Fort Erie Town Council
• MP	Tony Baldinelli
• MPP	Wayne Gates
Area [1]
• Land	166.27 km2 (64.20 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[1]
• Total	30,710
• Density	184.7/km2 (478/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Forward Sortation Area	L2A, L0S 1B0, 1N0, 1R0, 1S0, 1S1
Area code(s)	905, 289, 365, and 742
Highways	Queen Elizabeth Way  Highway 3
Website	www.forterie.ca

Fort Erie is a town in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. The town is located at the south eastern corner of the region, on the Niagara River, directly across the Canada–United States border from Buffalo, New York, and is the site of Old Fort Erie which played a prominent role in the War of 1812.

Fort Erie is one of Niagara's fastest growing communities, and has experienced a high level of residential and commercial development in the past few years. Garrison Road (Niagara Regional Road 3) is the town's commercial corridor, stretching east to west through Fort Erie.

Fort Erie is also home to other commercial core areas (Bridgeburg, Ridgeway, Stevensville and Crystal Beach) as a result of the 1970 amalgamation of Bertie Township and the village of Crystal Beach with Fort Erie.

Crystal Beach Park occupied waterfront land at Crystal Beach, Ontario, from 1888 until the park's closure in 1989. The beach is part of Fort Erie.^[2]