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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KLQ_the-battle-of-the-windmill_Ontario.html
English: Prelude to the Battle In 1837 the British army and loyal militia crushed the first armed revolt in Upper and Lowr Canada. Many rebels fled to the United States. The exiles joined with American sympathisers to form a secret paramilitar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KLO_ogle-robert-gowan-1803-1876_Brockville-Ontario.html
A prominent provincial politician, Gowan was born in County Wexford, Ireland. He came to Upper Canada in 1829 and immediately immersed himself in political affairs. Drawing upon his experience in the Irish Orange Order, Gowan established the Grand…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KLN_johnstown-district-court-house-and-gaol_Brockville-Ontario.html
In 1808 the provincial government authorized the erection of a court house and gaol in Elizabethtown (Brockville) to serve the District of Johnstown created ten years earlier. By 1811 a brick structure had been built here on land donated by Willia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KLM_forsyths-raid-1813_Brockville-Ontario.html
On the night of February 6-7, 1813, Major Benjamin Forsyth of the United States Army, with a detachment of regulars and militia numbering about 200 men, crossed the frozen St. Lawrence River from Morristown, N.Y., and attacked Brockville. The vill…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KLJ_william-buells-1816-map-of-brockville_Brockville-Ontario.html
This is one of the earliest maps of the Village of Brockville and shows many of the early details upon which the later Town, and then City of Brockville have been superimposed. The war of 1812-15 has just been over for a short time. The area aro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KKU_col-edward-jessup_Prescott-Ontario.html
Born in Stamford, Connecticut, he forfeited 500,000 acres near Albany, New York, by taking up arms for the King on the outbreak of the American Revolution. He raised the Loyal (Jessup's) Rangers and served under Burgoyne. This corps was disbanded …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KKN_prescott-war-memorial_Prescott-Ontario.html
World War I 1914-1918 Arthur E. Baker · Howard Baker · Philip V. Blacklock · Cecil Bovaird · Ward W. Burke · John H. Davy · Jacob S. Doyle · G. Harvey Ewart · Ira H. Gl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KKL_bytown-and-prescott-railway-company-1850_Prescott-Ontario.html
This company, incorporated in 1850, built a railway from Prescott to Bytown (Ottawa) for the shipment of lumber and farm products to markets of the north-eastern United States and Montreal. Substantial funds were raised at Bytown, Prescott and oth…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KKK_the-battle-of-the-windmill_Ontario.html
English: After the 1837 Rebellions many rebels fled to the United States where a few joined American sympathizers in a new attempt to overthrow British rule in Canada. On 12 November 1838 they landed 190 men here and seized this windmill and nearb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KJH_sir-richard-william-scott_Prescott-Ontario.html
English: Born at Prescott, Scott was admitted to the bar in 1848 and practiced law in Ottawa. As a member of the legislature of United Canada (1857-63) he sponsored the Separate School Act of 1863. Subsequently, he represented Ottawa in the Ont…
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