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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FPJ_brock-dead-house_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
During the War of 1812, the Brock Dead House was owned by Patrick McCabe. The façade was oriented in an easterly direction, facing the Niagara River.
Courtesy Brock University Library,
Special Collections and Archives
Brock Dead House
On 13th …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1753_brock-dead-house_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
During the War of 1812, the Brock Dead House was owned by Patrick McCabe. The fa?ade was oriented in an easterly direction, facing the Niagara River.
Courtesy Brock University Library,Special Collections and Archives
Brock Dead HouseOn 13th …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10MD_major-john-richardson_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
This pioneer historian, author and soldier was born in Queenston. His family moved to Amherstburg about 1802, and at the outbreak of the War of 1812 Richardson joined the British army. Retired on half pay in 1818 in London, England, he published t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYU7_the-queenston-baptist-church_Thorold-ON.html
By 1808 the Rev. Elkanah Holmes, a missionary from the United States, had organized the first Baptist congregation in Queenston. Following the war of 1812 the congregation declined, was reorganized in 1831 and between 1842 and 1845 erected the rou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYU2_the-founding-of-queenston_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
Following the loss, after the American Revolution of the Niagara River's east bank, a new portage around Niagara Falls was established in the 1780s' with Queenston its northern terminous. Wharves, storehouses and a block-house were built. Robert H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYTV_laura-secord-1775-1868_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
[English text]:
The celebrated heroine of the war of 1812 is a renowned figure in Canadian History. Determined to warn the British of an impending attack on Beaver Dams, Secord set out from her home on June 22, 1813, on a dangerous mission. She…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYTU_home-of-laura-ingersoll-secord_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
[Text inscribed on stone monument]:
Home ofLaura IngersollSecord.[Text on lower plaque]:
This stone marker was placed in 1901 by the Women's Literary Club of St. Catharines to honour Laura Secord and was re-dedicated in 1972 by members of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMXDZ_brocks-cenotaph_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
[Text on North Side of Marker]:
Near the spot Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K.C.B. Provisional LieutenantGovernor of Upper Canada fell on 13 - October, 1812 while advancing to repel the invading enemy.[Text on South Side of Marker]:
This st…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX66_indians-at-queenston-heights_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
Warriors of the Six Nations of Iroquois (Mohawks, Oniedas Onondagos, Cayugas, Senecas, Tuscaroras), mainly from the Grand River, fought as allies of the British in this historic battle with the Americans. Speaking distinctive dialects and with dif…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX65_alfred_Niagara-on-the-Lake-ON.html
Early in the morning of October 13, 1812, after galloping seven miles from Fort George, General Brock tethered his gray horse ?Alfred' here in the Village of Queenston in order to lead a charge on foot to repel the invading enemy. Brock was killed…