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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FOY_memorial-hall-1906_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.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/HM1FOX_john-graves-simcoe_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.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/HM1FOW_janet-carnochan-1839-1926_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.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/HM1FOV_chloe-cooley-and-the-1793-act-to-limit-slavery-in-upper-canada_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.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/HM1FOU_butlers-rangers_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.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/HM1FOT_stamford-cottage_Niagara-Falls-Ontario.html
200 yards north east of this point stood
"Stamford Cottage" later known as
"Stamford Park" the home of
Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieutenant Governor
of Upper Canada from 1818 to 1828.
The property was purchased in 1822 and
consisted of a 'cottage' a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FOS_site-of-redan-battery_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
Near this spot Lieut-Col. John MacDonnell Attorney General of Upper Canada was mortally wounded 13th October 1812.
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/HM18ZO_conestoga-wagon-trek_Fort-Erie-ON.html
The border between Canada and the United States of America has witnessed many migrations of people. At two times, however, the migration was primarily from south to north. That was in the troubled days just prior to the American Revolutionary War …