Ancaster Barracks and Mississauga Lighthouse

From North American Forts, "Ontario Forts."

ANCASTER BARRACKS

(1812-1815)  Militia. Ancaster

Militia barracks were located on Wilson Street.  The current building on the site is probably not of the time period.

MISSISSAUGA POINT LIGHTHOUSE  NHS (near Fort George)

On the shoreline of the Niagara River in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, the site marks the site of the first lighthouse built on the Great Lakes in 1804.  Archaeologists believe there are remnants of the lighthouse below the eastern mortar bastion of Fort Mississauga, no above ground remains, though.

The hexagonal stone tower and  lightkeeper's residence was constructed in 1804 by military masons  of the 49th Regiment of Foot. It was damaged in the Battle of Fort George in 1813 and demolished by the British in 1814 when they built Fort Mississauga on the same site.  Local legend has the remains of the lighthouse being incorporated into the fort's tower.

--Brock-Perry