From the October 6, 2015, "All about Canadian history" blog.
The story of Mary Henry; an al-but-forgotten heroine form the War of 1812. There is not a lot of source material about her.
She was born Mary Madden c1770 in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Not much is known about her early life. Around the age of 20 she married a Royal Artillery gunner from County Derry named Dominic Henry in 1790. The two immigrated to British North America when Dominic was shipped to a post in Niagara.
In 1803, Dominic retured from the military, became a pensioner and was appointed the keeper of the first lighthouse on the Great Lakes town of Niagara (now Niagara-by-the-Lake.)
--Brock-Perry
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