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Fort Mississauga National Historic Site is a fort on the shore of Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.The fort today consists of a box–shaped brick tower and historic star–shaped earthworks.
On Common Ground: The Ongoing Story of the Commons in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Dundurn. ISBN 9781459703483. Porter, Peter Augustus (1896). A Brief History of Old Fort Niagara. Matthews-Northrup Company. Tucker, Spencer C. (2012). The Encyclopedia of the War of 1812: A Political, Social, and Military History. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851099566.
Butler's Barracks was the home of Loyalist military officer John Butler (1728–1796), in what was then Newark, Upper Canada; present day Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.Butler is most famous for leading an irregular military unit known as Butler's Rangers on the northern frontier during the American Revolutionary War.
The Lincoln and Welland Regimental Museum, in Butler's Barracks in Niagara-on-the-Lake, features the history of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment. Exhibits include displays and artifacts from the 18th through the present, and include uniforms, weapons, medals, photographs, regimental band instruments, and other memorabilia.
A generating station to supply hydro-electric power to Toronto, it was the first wholly Canadian-owned hydro-electric facility at Niagara Falls; an elegant and unusual application of Beaux-Arts design to an industrial site in Canada Willowbank [51] [52] 1836 (completed) 2003 Niagara-on-the-Lake
Fort Niagara was designated a National Historic Landmark on October 9, 1960, as "Old Fort Niagara". [12] The Colonial Niagara Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. [1] It is a major contributing element to the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area. [14] Lake Ontario from Fort Niagara
Niagara-on-the-Lake is in the Niagara Region of Ontario and is the only town in Canada that has a lord mayor. [3] It had a population of 19,088 as of the 2021 Canadian census. Niagara-on-the-Lake is important in the history of Canada: it served as the first capital of the province of Upper Canada, the predecessor of Ontario. It was called ...
Old Fort Erie, also known as Fort Erie, or the Fort Erie National Historic Site of Canada, was the first British fort to be constructed as part of a network developed after the Seven Years' War (known as "the French and Indian War" in the colonies) was concluded by the Treaty of Paris (1763), at which time France ceded its territories east of the Mississippi River (all of New France) to Great ...