Major Charles Stuart 1783-1865

Photo by Alan L Brown - June 13, 2005

Plaque Location

The County of Grey
The Town of The Blue Mountains
In Thornbury, on the north side of Bay Street East between McCauley Street North and Elgin Street North

Plaque Text

Son of a British army officer, Stuart was born in Jamaica. After fourteen years service as a commissioned officer in the service of the East India Company, he came to Upper Canada in 1817. Devoutly religious, Stuart found an outlet for his humanitarian zeal in vigorous anti-slavery activity. Although most of his written works are polemical tracts denouncing slavery, his "The Emigrants Guide to Upper Canada" is a useful Summary of the progress of areas most suited to settlement. In 1851 he moved to this area where he encouraged the establishment of a small settlement at Lora Bay. On his death in 1865 he was buried at Lora Bay but was later removed to the nearby Thornbury-Clarksburg cemetery.

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