Battle of Ridgeway

Photo by contributor Colin Semple - Posted August, 2006

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Plaque Location

The Region of Niagara
The Town of Fort Erie
In Ridgeway, on the east side of Ridge Road North
2 and a half blocks south of Dominion Road

Coordinates: N 42 52.935 W 79 03.115

Plaque Text

On June 1, 1866, Irish-American revolutionaries called Fenians invaded Canada as part of an attempt to strike at Britain and support the creation of an independent Irish republic. The next morning, Canadian militiamen from the Queen's Own Rifles, the 13th Battalion and the York and Caledonia rifle companies, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Booker, arrived here by train before marching on to battle the Fenian invaders. Contradictory orders and confusion on the battlefield coincided with a Fenian counterattack to cause the Canadians to withdraw. The Fenians retired to Fort Erie and returned to Buffalo that night. The Battle of Ridgeway shocked the country, spurring improvements to Canada's defences and helping to bolster the Confederation movement.

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Ridgeway Battlefield

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