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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18ZS_niagara-land-purchases_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.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/HM18ZR_john-graves-simcoe_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18ZN_butlers-rangers_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
In 1777 John Butler of New York raised a force of Rangers who, with their Iroquois allies, raided the frontiers of New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey throughout the American Revolutionary War. From their base at Fort Niagara they successfully m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18ZI_the-canada-constellation_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.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/HM18ZE_memorial-hall-1906_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.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/HM18ZB_janet-carnochan-1839-1926_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
For more than thirty years Janet Carnochan, a native of Stamford, Ontario, taught elementary and secondary school at Niagara-on-the Lake, but she made her greatest contribution to the community as a historian rather than as an educator. A distingu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18YO_negro-burial-ground-1830_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.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/HM18YM_the-upper-canadian-act-against-slavery-1793_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.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/HM18YL_chloe-cooley-and-the-1793-act-to-limit-slavery-in-upper-canada_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
On March 14, 1793 Chloe Cooley, an enslaved Black woman in Queenston, was bound, thrown in a boat and sold across the river to a new owner in the United States. Her screams and violent resistance were brought to the attention of Lieutenant Governo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1753_brock-dead-house_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
During the War of 1812, the Brock Dead House was owned by Patrick McCabe. The fa?ade was oriented in an easterly direction, facing the Niagara River.
Courtesy Brock University Library,Special Collections and Archives
Brock Dead HouseOn 13th …