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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/HM18ZA_niagara-portage-road_Niagara-Falls-ON.html
Following the cession of the east bank of the Niagara River to the United States in 1783, the British authorities felt compelled to transfer the portage road around Niagara Falls to the west bank of the river. Opened in 1789 by a group of private …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18Z8_edgeworth-ussher-esq_Niagara-Falls-ON.html
Edgeworth Ussher, Esq.November 16, 1838Here rests, in the hope of a joyfulresurrection, the mortal remains ofEdgeworth Ussher, Esq., whose devotionto his sovereign and exertions in thecause of his country at a critical periodof the history of Cana…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18YP_richard-pierpoint-c-1744-c-1838_St.-Catharines-ON.html
One of the first Black settlers in this region, Pierpoint was born in Senegal. At the age of about 16 he was imprisoned and shipped to America where he became the slave of a British officer. During the American Revolution he enlisted in the Britis…
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…