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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FPF_freedom-park_Fort-Erie-Ontario.html
From around 1830 to 1860, thousands of freedom seekers used the Underground Railroad to reach sanctuary in Canada - the "promised land". Many crossed the Niagara River from the United State to Fort Erie, including Josiah Henson and his f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FPE_fort-erie-ferry-landings_Fort-Erie-Ontario.html
Throughout the 1800s there were many ferry landings competing for business along the Niagara River. The map below is a compilation of some of these locations.
Ferry leases were granted to:
Col. John Warren Sr.,
John Warren Jr.,
Nelson Forsyth,
Ke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FPD_bertie-street-ferry-landing_Fort-Erie-Ontario.html
Over the centuries there have been many ferry landings along the Niagara River. Some were built by local merchants and some as government licenced landing points.
The longest operating ferry dock was here, near the foot of present-day Bertie Stre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FPC_3-the-capture-of-the-redan-and-the-death-of-brock_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
On the river banks below here, the Americans were trapped. To the right the Americans scaled the river cliff and seized the Heights above. To the left the British held the Village of Queenston. A British 18-pounder cannon situated here within an e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FP4_bme-church_St.-Catharines-Ontario.html
[Text on left side of marker]:
The Salem Chapel, British Methodist Episcopal Church was the first Black church in St. Catharines. Originally known as the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the name was changed to reflect their loyalty to the Bri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FP3_laura-ingersoll-secord_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.html
[Front side of Monument]:
This monument has been
erected by the
Government of Canada
to
Laura Ingersoll Secord
who saved her husband's life
in the battle on these heights,
October 13th, 1812,
and who risked her own
in conveying to Capt. Fitzgibbo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FP2_the-upper-canadian-act-against-slavery-1793_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.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/HM1FP1_the-canada-constellation_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.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/HM1FP0_niagara-land-purchases_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.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/HM1FOZ_negro-burial-ground-1830_Niagara-on-the-Lake-Ontario.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…