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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BV9_carolinian-canada_Leamington-Ontario.html
Middle Island
Middle Island is the most southern piece of land in Canada. Only a few metres from the Canada-US border, the tiny 22-hectare island is part of the western Lake Erie archipelago. Migrating birds and insects use the island to rest as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YVF_bellevue-1816_Amherstburg-Ontario.html
This house, one of the finest remaining examples of domestic Georgian architecture in Ontario, was commenced in 1816 and completed about 1819, by Robert Reynolds, the commissary to the garrison at Fort Malden. Bellevue was also the home of his sis…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WH9_the-great-western-railway-historical_Windsor-Ontario.html
The main line of "The Great Western", from Niagara Falls through Hamilton and London to Windsor, was opened in 1854. The company extended its line from Hamilton to Toronto in 1855, from Komoka to Sarnia in 1858, and from Glencoe to Fort …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P17_the-banwell-road-area-black-settlement_Tecumseh-Ontario.html
Beginning in the 1830s, at least 30 families fleeing enslavement and racial oppression in the United States settled in the Banwell Road area in Sandwich East. They had the opportunity to purchase land through two Black-organized land settlement pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GCD_major-john-richardson_Amherstburg-Ontario.html
Born at Queenston in Upper Canada, John Richardson served as a volunteer at Fort Malden during the War of 1812 and was taken prisoner by the Americans at Moraviantown. He was released at war's end, retired on half-pay in 1818, and spent most of th…