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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GKT_st-catharines_St.-Catharines-Ontario.html
St. Catharines has been known by a number of names in its history. The city is believed to have been one of the largest Native Settlements in North America. Shortly after the American Revolution, it was settled by Loyalists, the first of these kno…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G1U_welland-ship-canal_St.-Catharines-Ontario.html
This plaque erected to mark the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Welland Ship Canal to world shipping on August 6, 1932, commemorates the significant role this historic waterway and our inland fleet play in Canadian national life.
This cana…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G1O_private-alexander-watson_St.-Catharines-Ontario.html
Erected to the memory of Private Alexander Watson, 90th Winnipeg Batt. Rifles, Canadian volunteers, and his companions in arms, who fell in battle during the rebellion in the N.W.T., A.D. 1885. "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori." Lt.-Col. A.T.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G1J_victoria-lawn-cemetery-1855_St.-Catharines-Ontario.html
The first person to be buried on this land was a sailor known simply as Brooks. that year, 1855, when the land was still known only as Potter's Fields, seven others were also buried, beginning the establishment of St. Catharines' largest and most …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G1F_the-welland-canals-and-the-st-lawrence-seaway-system_St.-Catharines-Ontario.html
The Welland Ship Canal is the fourth in a series of successively larger canals that were built to join Lakes Ontario and Erie - the first being completed in 1829. The present Canal was opened in 1932. It forms part of the St. Lawrence Seaway/Great…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G1D_vertical-lift-bridges_St.-Catharines-Ontario.html
Twenty vertical lift bridges were constructed to cross the Welland Canal at the time of its opening in 1932. Of the eleven original vertical lift bridges, only three remain in use.
This sheave (a grooved wheel that forms part of a pulley) was rem…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G0V_st-paul-street-united-church_St.-Catharines-Ontario.html
[on brick]
Exterior designated 1990. Of Italianate styling constructed in red brick (favoured by Methodist Church) between 1861 and 1863. Modeled after the Grace Methodist Church in Buffalo.
Significant features: round-headed windows, corbelled b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G0J_city-hall-1937_St.-Catharines-Ontario.html
Built on the site of the previous City Hall, this building was officially opened in August 1937 and was a hallmark of what was hailed as the dawn of a new era. The previous building, known as Benson House, was a former home that had been used as a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G0I_in-memorium-reqviescant-in-pace_St.-Catharines-Ontario.html
'The men were very good unto us and we were not hurt. They were a wall unto us both by night and day'
1914?World War I?1918
1939?World War II?1945
1950?Korea?1953
United Nations Peacekeepers
Canadian Merchant Navy
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Passchendaele
Amiens
Arr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G08_shipbuilding-in-st-catharines-1845_St.-Catharines-Ontario.html
St. Catharines became an important part of the shipping industry due to te building of the Welland Canals and its location between two Great Lakes. Louis Shickluna, a shipbuilder who emigrated to St. Catharines to Malta, began working as a builder…