Laura Secord's Monument
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Object
- Item Type
- Memorial works
- Description
- Photograph of Laura Secord's Monument which is located overlooking the lower Niagara River and the village of Queenston. The Monument is topped with a column and an oval plaque is centered within. A foot high wrought iron fence surrounds the entire monument and round formal flower bed lies in front. A wooden and metal bench seat is located behind the monument facing the view. A Crest of the British Empire on which reads "On whose Dominion the sun never sets" is at the top right corner.
- Inscriptions
- 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 13, 1812.
And who risked her own in conveying to Capt. Fitzgibbon, Information by which he won the victory of Beaver Dams
Erected 1910 - Date of Original
- 1910
- Date Of Event
- 1812
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 2592
Image Height: 3872
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Secord, Laura
- Local identifier
- SNPL000013v00i
- Collection
- Six Nations Legacy Consortium
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.15842 Longitude: -79.05237
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- Donor
- Six Nations Legacy Consortium, War of 1812
- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses are subject to the terms of a contract. Contact the repository for further information. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Six Nations Public LibraryEmail:info@snpl.ca
Website:
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