Upper Canada Village Pioneer Memorial
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Upper Canada Village Pioneer Memorial

Upper Canada Village, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties, Ontario, Canada

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  • Get directions 13740 County Road 2
    Upper Canada Village, Ontario, K0C 1X0 Canada
    Coordinates: 44.94512, -75.06837
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This is a memorial outside the front of the Upper Canada Village living museum attraction, to those who passed away in the area in the 1800s, whose final resting place was later flooded during the St. Lawrence Seaway project in the 1950s. All of the original headstones recovered are mounted in brick walls labeled in different sections based on where the headstone came from. 

A plaque at the site reads: "This garden is erected to commemorate the pioneer founders of Ontario who settled the Upper St. Lawrence Valley. Selected Gravestones from cemeteries in eight communities submerged in 1958 beneath the St. Lawrence are set in walls of brick and stone from vanished pioneer buildings. Of the names not found upon these walls their best memorial is the country they lived to build."

All headstones have been photographed.

This is a memorial outside the front of the Upper Canada Village living museum attraction, to those who passed away in the area in the 1800s, whose final resting place was later flooded during the St. Lawrence Seaway project in the 1950s. All of the original headstones recovered are mounted in brick walls labeled in different sections based on where the headstone came from. 

A plaque at the site reads: "This garden is erected to commemorate the pioneer founders of Ontario who settled the Upper St. Lawrence Valley. Selected Gravestones from cemeteries in eight communities submerged in 1958 beneath the St. Lawrence are set in walls of brick and stone from vanished pioneer buildings. Of the names not found upon these walls their best memorial is the country they lived to build."

All headstones have been photographed.

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  • Added: 29 Nov 2008
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2284488