Burlington Heights Military Depot

From North American Forts "Ontario Forts."

Last week I wrote about this military camp in regards to the Ancaster Bloody Assize hangings.

It is a National Historic Site in Canada.

BURLINGTON HEIGHTS DEPOT

(1813-1815)  Hamilton

A British military supply depot and barracks established here after the fall of Fort George to  the Americans.  Several log barracks and a tent encampment were built on the heights.  Officers used the Richard Beasley brick manor for their quarters.

Storehouses were built below the heights  along the bayshore.

--Brock-Perry

Burlington Heights Markers-- Part 3: United Empire Loyalists

UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS  (about 240 meters away).

"IN LASTING MEMORY OF THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS

"Who preferred to remain loyal British subjects and came to Canada in large numbers immediately following the American Revolution of 1776 and the signing of the Treaty of Peace in 1783.

"On this site in 1785 was erected one of  the first log houses in this district by loyalist pioneer Col. Richard Beasley who on June  11th and 12th 1796 here entertained Lieut. Colonel John Graves Simcoe the first Lieut. Governor of Upper Canada and Mrs. Simcoe.

"Unveiled July 1st, 1927 the Diamond Jubilee of the Confederation of the provinces of Canada on July 1st, 1867."

SIR JOHN HARVEY  (ABOUT .2 KILOMETER FROM MARKER)

SIR JOHN HARVEY  1778-1852

"From these heights , Lieutenant-Colonel John Harvey set out with 700 men on the night of June 5, 1813, to launch an attack  on an invading United States force of some 3,000 men camped at Stoney Creek.  His rout of the troops commanded by  Brigadier-General  John Chandler under cover of darkness in the early hours of June 6, is generally credited with saving Upper Canada from being overrun by the enemy.

"Harvey was knighted in 1834, served as Lieutenant-Governor of  New Brunswick 1834-1841, Governor of Newfoundland , 1841-1846, and Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, 1846-1851."

--Brock-Perry