Provincial Plaques Across Ontario
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An inventory of provincial plaques across Ontario Explore the Online Plaque Guide at heritagetrust.on.ca/plaques Last updated: July 29, 2016 An inventory of provincial plaques across Ontario Plaque title Location Region County/District Municipality "Canada First" Movement, The At the entrance to the National Club, 303 Greater Toronto Area City of Toronto City of Toronto Bay Street, Toronto "Cariboo" Cameron 1820-1888 On the grounds of his former home, Eastern Ontario United Counties of Stormont, Dundas Township of South Glengarry Fairfield, which now houses Legionaries of and Glengarry Christ, County Road 2 and County Road 27, west of Summerstown "Colored Corps" 1812-1815, The On Queenston Heights, near the Brock Niagara Falls and Region Regional Municipality of Niagara Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake monument, Queenston "Cyclone" Taylor 1885-1979 In Memorial Park, Yonge Street, Tara Southwestern Ontario County of Bruce Municipality of Arran-Elderslie "Howie" Morenz 1902-1937 In Howie Morenz Memorial Gardens, Southwestern Ontario County of Perth Township of West Perth Blanchard and Huron Streets, Mitchell "King" Capron 1796-1872 In front of his former home, 8 Homestead Southwestern Ontario County of Brant County of Brant Road, Paris "Ned" Hanlan 1855-1908 Near the ferry dock, Hanlans Point, Toronto Greater Toronto Area City of Toronto City of Toronto Islands, Toronto "Old" City Hall 1899-1965 In front of the east wing of the building, 60 Greater Toronto Area City of Toronto City of Toronto Queen Street West, Toronto "Pirate" Johnston 1782-1870 In the waterfront park, Water Street, just Eastern Ontario United Counties of Leeds and Town of Gananoque east of Main Street, Gananoque Grenville "Tiger" Dunlop 1792-1848 At Dunlop's Tomb historic site, Highway 21, Southwestern Ontario County of Huron Twp of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh just north of Goderich 107 Wellington Street West 1889 In the lobby of 95 Wellington Street West, Greater Toronto Area City of Toronto City of Toronto Toronto Abel Stevens At the cemetery at Bellamy's Lake within the Eastern Ontario United Counties of Leeds and Township of Elizabethtown-Kitley lands he helped to settle, west of Toledo - Grenville County Road 8, west of Highway 29 Abraham Erb 1772-1830 In Waterloo Park, Yonge Street West, Southwestern Ontario Regional Municipality of Waterloo City of Waterloo Waterloo Acting Sergeant John Rennie, G.C. At the armoury, 200 James Street North, Southwestern Ontario City of Hamilton City of Hamilton 1919-1943 Hamilton Acton In front of the public library, 17 River Street, Greater Toronto Area Regional Municipality of Halton Town of Halton Hills Acton Addington Road, The Near the route of the former colonization Eastern Ontario County of Lennox and Addington Township of Addington Highlands road, Highway 41 at Highway 7, Kaladar Adelaide Hunter Hoodless 1858-1910 At her birthplace, now a museum, Blue Lake Southwestern Ontario County of Brant County of Brant Road, off Highway 24, west of St. George For more information, visit www.heritagetrust.on.ca. Page 1 of 78 An inventory of provincial plaques across Ontario Plaque title Location Region County/District Municipality Admiral Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill On Highway 15, about 600 metres (nearly Eastern Ontario United Counties of Leeds and Township of Rideau Lakes 1855-1935 2,000 feet) northeast of the intersection of Grenville Highway 15 and Big Rideau Lake Road, southwest of Portland. Agnes Campbell MacPhail 1890-1954 At the entrance to Proton Community Park Southwestern Ontario County of Grey Township of Southgate on Grey County Road 9 (Agnes Macphail Road), Hopeville – approximately 12 km north of Highway 89 in Proton Township Ailsa Craig At the community centre, Highway 7 and Southwestern Ontario County of Middlesex Municipality of North Middlesex Jameson Street, Ailsa Craig Aimee Semple McPherson 1890-1944 Opposite Salford United Church, Salford. Southwestern Ontario County of Oxford Township of South-west Oxford The village is located southwest of Woodstock, at County Road 46 and Highway 119 Albert Carman 1833-1917 At 305 Church Street, Belleville Eastern Ontario County of Hastings City of Belleville Albert College At College Hill United Church, 16 North Park Eastern Ontario County of Hastings City of Belleville Street, the original site of the college, Belleville Alderville Manual Labour School On the grounds of the Band Administration Central Ontario County of Northumberland Alderville First Nation Office of the Alderville First Nation, Highway 45, south of Roseneath Alexander Cameron Rutherford 1857- On the grounds of the Osgoode Township Ottawa City of Ottawa City of Ottawa 1941 Museum, Highway 31, Vernon Alexander Morris 1826-1889 In Stewart Park, behind the town hall, 80 Eastern Ontario County of Lanark Town of Perth Gore Street East, Perth Allan Studholme 1846-1919 In Woodlands Park, Barton and Wentworth Southwestern Ontario City of Hamilton City of Hamilton Streets, Hamilton Allenford Pow-wow 1855, The Opposite St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Southwestern Ontario County of Bruce Municipality of South Bruce Highway 21 near Side Road 10, Allenford Alligator Tug, The In Lynnwood Park, Norfolk Street North at Southwestern Ontario County of Norfolk County of Norfolk Alligator Lane, Simcoe Alma College At the former college, Moore and McIntyre Southwestern Ontario County of Elgin City of St. Thomas Streets, St. Thomas Andrew Edward McKeever 1895-1919 In Cenotaph Park, Wallace Avenue North Southwestern Ontario County of Perth Town of North Perth and Elizabeth Street East, Listowel For more information, visit www.heritagetrust.on.ca. Page 2 of 78 An inventory of provincial plaques across Ontario Plaque title Location Region County/District Municipality Andrew Frederick Hunter 1863-1940 At 37 Mulcaster Street, Barrie Central Ontario County of Simcoe City of Barrie Anna Jameson 1794-1860 St. Marys River Drive, west of the Holiday Northern Ontario District of Algoma City of Sault Ste. Marie Inn, Sault Ste. Marie Aqua-Plano Indians of the Upper At Boegh Park, a picnic area on Highway Northern Ontario District of Thunder Bay Township of Shuniah Great Lakes, The 587 near Pass Lake - about 32 km east of Thunder Bay Archives of Ontario, The Inside main lobby of Archives building, York Greater Toronto Area City of Toronto City of Toronto University Campus, 134 Ian Macdonald Blvd., Toronto Arctic Watershed, The On Highway 11 where the watershed Northern Ontario District of Timiskaming Kenogami Lake crosses the thoroughfare, about 14 km northwest of Kenogami Lake Arctic Watershed, The On Highway 17, where the watershed Northern Ontario District of Thunder Bay Raith crosses the thoroughfare, near Raith - northwest of Thunder Bay Armadale Free Methodist Church In front of the church, Passmore Avenue, Greater Toronto Area City of Toronto City of Toronto 1880, The west of Markham Road, Toronto Asa Turner On the grounds of Sidney Baptist Church, Eastern Ontario County of Hastings Township of Stirling-Rawdon Baptist Church Road and Concession 8, off Highway 14, near Stirling Asa Wolverton House, The In front of the house, 52 Grand River Street Southwestern Ontario County of Brant County of Brant South, Paris Ashbridge Estate, The At 1444 Queen Street East, Toronto Greater Toronto Area City of Toronto City of Toronto Associated Country Women of the On the grounds of the Collingwood Museum, Central Ontario County of Simcoe Town of Collingwood World, The St. Paul Street, Collingwood Auld Kirk 1836 On the grounds of the church, County Road Eastern Ontario County of Lanark Town of Mississippi Mills 16, about 1 km west of Highway 15, Almonte Aurora Armoury At the Aurora Armoury, 138 Larmont Street Greater Toronto Area Regional Municipality of York Town of Aurora (at Mosely Street), Aurora. Aurora Public School At the former school building, now the Greater Toronto Area Regional Municipality of York Town of Aurora Aurora Museum, 22 Church Street, Aurora Austin Airways 1934-1987 Near the Aviation Monument at Science Northern Ontario City of Greater Sudbury City of Greater Sudbury North, 100 Ramsay Lake Road, Sudbury For more information, visit www.heritagetrust.on.ca. Page 3 of 78 An inventory of provincial plaques across Ontario Plaque title Location Region County/District Municipality B. Napier Simpson, Jr. 1925-1978 On the grounds of St. Peter's Anglican Central Ontario County of Haliburton Township of Dysart et al Church where his grave is located, Maple Lake Baldoon Settlement 1804-1818, The In MacDonald Park, Wallaceburg, off the St. Southwestern Ontario Municipality of Chatham-Kent Municipality of Chatham-Kent Clair Parkway Ball's Bridge On Little Lakes Road, near the intersection Southwestern Ontario County of Huron Municipality of Central Huron of Base Line, about 13 km (8 miles) east of Goderich. Ball's Grist-Mill At the mill in Ball's Falls Conservation Area, Niagara Falls and Region Regional Municipality of Niagara Town of Lincoln Regional Road 24, just south of Vineland Barberton In Barberton Park, Barbertown Road, east Greater Toronto Area Regional Municipality of Peel City of Mississauga off Mississauga Road north of Eglinton Avenue, Mississauga Barnum House On the grounds of the house, County Road Central Ontario County of Northumberland Township of Alnwick Haldimand 2, at the western approach to Grafton Bath Academy 1811, The On the grounds of the municipal office, 352 Eastern Ontario County of Lennox and Addington Township of Loyalist Academy Street, Bath Battle of Malcolm's Mills 1814, The In Pioneer Cemetery, Oakland Street or Southwestern Ontario County of Brant County of Brant County Road 4, Oakland Battle of Moraviantown, 1813 (Battle At the original Battle of the Thames Site Southwestern Ontario Municipality of Chatham-Kent Municipality of Chatham-Kent of the Thames) (Tecumseh Monument location), 14376 Longwoods Road (County Road 21), Thamesville. Battle of Pelee Island 1838, The At Pelee Island Public School, North Shore Southwestern Ontario County of Essex Pelee Island and Victoria Roads, Scudder, Pelee Island Battle of Ridgeway At the junction of the Friendship Trail and Niagara Falls and Region Regional Municipality of Niagara Town of Fort Erie Ridge Road in Ridgeway.