"Queenstown, Upper Canada on the Niagara" [Now known as Queenston, Ontario] by Edward Walsh, at around the time that Laura and James Secord were raising their family there. Image dates from between 1803 and 1807.  Travelers on horseback, cart, and foot traverse the wide dirt road, while houses are near the shore of the Niagara River. Queenston is just north of Niagara Falls and the site of the the battle of Queenston Heights on October 13, 1812, in the War of 1812, when the Canadians and British defeated the American forces that invaded the town. Edward Walsh was a surgeon to the 49th Regiment and served in Canada from 1803-1807.

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Though we can no longer find exactly the same vantage point that artist Edward Walsh employed in his evocative watercolour painting (above), looking south from the unopened Dee Road allowance on the Laura Secord Legacy Trail provides a respectable modern-day approximation of this iconic viewshed.

Few places in Niagara offer such a good unobstructed view of the Niagara Escarpment, Brock's Monument, Queenston and Queenston heights as does this location among the fields and vineyards on this section of Stage 1 of the Laura Secord Legacy Trail.

From here, you can appreciate the sweep and scope of the Escarpment lands rising to the south, and see the end of the Niagara River Gorge rising at Queenston Heights, where Niagara Falls originally tumbled into Lake Ontario more than 12,000 years ago. The Escarpment is crowned by the spire of Brock's Monument, and embraced by the Village of Queenston to the north.

Further Information

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