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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MPV_major-james-morrow-walsh_Prescott-Ontario.html
Born and educated in Prescott, Walsh was trained at military schools at Kingston and by 1873 had attained the rank of Major in the militia. In that year he was commissioned in the newly formed North-West Mounted Police. While in charge at Fort Wal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MPR_eastern-ontarios-first-court-house-and-gaol_Ontario.html
Eastern Ontario's first Court House and Gaol was constructed on the waterfront south of this site between 1795 and 1797. The complex included a chamber for the District Court on the upper floor as well as cells and a room for the jailer on the low…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MPQ_the-forwarding-trade-at-prescott_Prescott-Ontario.html
Before the completion of the canals between here and Montreal in 1847, Prescott was the eastern terminus of Great Lakes navigation. Established at the head of Galops Rapids in 1810, it soon became a centre for the forwarding, or shipping, trade an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MPJ_prescott-barracks-and-hospital_Prescott-Ontario.html
The front portion of this structure one of the earliest surviving military buildings in Ontario, was constructed as a residence about 1810 by Colonel Edward Jessup, the founder of Prescott. Following the outbreak of the War of 1812, the stone hous…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MPC_st-pauls-church_Iroquois-Ontario.html
In 1828 Richard Duncan Fraser, the son of an early Loyalist settler, Captain Thomas Fraser, donated land here for the building of a church to serve the Anglicans in this area. Their minister, the Reverend J.G. Weagandt, the missionary stationed at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KOZ_fort-wellington_Prescott-Ontario.html
English: The first Fort Wellington was erected on this site during the War of 1812 to shelter British regular troops and Canadian militia defending the vital St. Lawrence River transportation route. In February 1813 those soldiers crossed the ice …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KMY_gen-sir-isaac-brock-k-c-b_Brockville-Ontario.html
Brockville was named after the Provisional Civi Administrator of Upper Canada and the Commanding Officier of the British forces in Upper Canada during the War of 1812-1814.
The government of Upper Canada first named this community "Elizabet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KMX_gananoque-town-hall_Gananoque-Ontario.html
Built about 1831-32, and designed in the late phase of the Neo-Classic style, this structure is among the best of its type remaining in Ontario. Constructed as a dwelling for John McDonald, a local landowner, merchant, postmaster and later a membe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KMW_raid-on-gananoque_Gananoque-Ontario.html
On September 21, 1812, a United States force of some 200 regulars and militia under Capt. Benjamin Forsyth attacked Gananoque. The village was an important forwarding point for supplies moving up the St. Lawrence from Montreal to Kingston and was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KMQ_gananoque_Gananoque-Ontario.html
English:
A vulnerable point on the vital line of supply from Lower Canada in the War of 1812-14. Raided on the 21st September, 1812, when the bridge was broken up. Fortified by the Leeds Militia and garrisoned in turn by the 104th, 41st, 89th, C…