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St.Catharines is the largest municipality in the Niagara Region and contains the Regional Muncipality's headquarters as well as its own City Hall. It also has a large number of sites distributed among several categories with, in the case of those allocated to Business and Economy, a further division into subcategories.

Arts and Entertainment

Individuals, companies, stores, and organizations, centred on St.Catharines, that deal and/or are engaged in activities, services, and supplies related to the visual and performing arts. (Note: Sites such as the Shaw Festival that are located elsewhere in the Niagara Region are indexed in their relevant Localities categories.)

Business and Economy

Retail stores, commercial and industrial companies, professional firms, and individuals offering products and services of various kinds. Central location is St.Catharines, but the customer base frequently extends into other communities in the Niagara Region and, often enough, well beyond its borders.

Of necessity, some judgements have been made in allocating sites to the different subcategories, but the type of sites they each contain are explained in the category Descriptions.

Education

St. Catharines acts as something of an educational hub for the Niagara Region. Playing host to Brock University and Niagara College, as well as Ridley College, it also serves as home for a number of other institutions, some of them with a quite specialized curriculum.

Health

Sites related to health and medical organizations, associations, and institutions based in St.Catharines, although many of them serve a much wider area.

News and Media

Newspapers, radio stations, and similar media sites based in St.Catharines.

Recreation and Sports

This category contains sites of organizations and, in a few cases, businesses serving the recreational and sporting interests of local residents and their near neighbours.

Society and Culture

Although this category can cover a wide range of human issues and concerns, its orientation from a St.Catharines standpoint is towards resources of a general nature that are or could be of interest to the city's residents.

Travel and Tourism

This category contains a mix of accommodation and attraction sites.

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