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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HXR_southern-terminus-of-the-bruce-trail_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
This cairn marks the southern terminus of the Bruce Trail, a cross-country foot trail established along or adjacent to the Niagara Escarpment extending from Tobermory on Georgian Bay in the north to this southern terminus at Queenston Heights.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FPJ_brock-dead-house_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
During the War of 1812, the Brock Dead House was owned by Patrick McCabe. The façade was oriented in an easterly direction, facing the Niagara River.
Courtesy Brock University Library,
Special Collections and Archives
Brock Dead House
On 13th …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FPC_3-the-capture-of-the-redan-and-the-death-of-brock_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
On the river banks below here, the Americans were trapped. To the right the Americans scaled the river cliff and seized the Heights above. To the left the British held the Village of Queenston. A British 18-pounder cannon situated here within an e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FP3_laura-ingersoll-secord_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
[Front side of Monument]:
This monument has been
erected by the
Government of Canada
to
Laura Ingersoll Secord
who saved her husband's life
in the battle on these heights,
October 13th, 1812,
and who risked her own
in conveying to Capt. Fitzgibbo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FP2_the-upper-canadian-act-against-slavery-1793_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
Inspired by the abolitionist sentiment emerging in the late 18th century, Lieutenant-Governor J.G. Simcoe made Upper Canada the first British territory to legislate against slavery, which had defined the conditions of life for most people of Afric…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FP1_the-canada-constellation_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
On July 20, 1799, the first edition of the "Canada Constellation", Upper Canada's earliest independent newspaper, was published at Niagara by Gideon and Silvester Tiffany, two brothers who had come from the United States. Gideon had at first held …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FP0_niagara-land-purchases_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
To obtain land on which to settle Loyalists and dispossessed members of the Six Nations of the Iroquois, Guy Johnson in May 1781 and John Butler in May 1784 negotiated treaties with representatives of the Mississauga and Chippewa of this region. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FOZ_negro-burial-ground-1830_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
Here stood a Baptist church erected in 1830 through the exertions of a former British soldier. John Oakley, who although white, became pastor of a predominantly negro congregation. In 1793 Upper Canada had passed an act forbidding further introduc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FOY_memorial-hall-1906_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
This building, the first in Ontario to be constructed for use solely as an historical museum, was begun in 1906 and completed the following year. Its erection was due largely to the dedicated efforts of Miss Janet Carnochan, founder, and for thirt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FOX_john-graves-simcoe_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
Simcoe was born in Northamptonshire and educated at Oxford. He joined the British army in 1771, and from 1777-81 commanded the Queen's Rangers, a Loyalist corps in America. After the Loyalist influx had led to the creation of a separate province o…