Ontario's Provincial Plaques

Here's where you can learn a little Ontario history.

Richmond Military Settlement 1818

Photo by Alan L Brown - June 16, 2004

Plaque Location

The City of Ottawa
In Richmond, at the fairgrounds on Perth Street (Road 10), just west of Huntley Road (Road 5)

Plaque Text

In August, 1818, some thirty disbanded veterans of the 99th Regiment, led by Captain G.T. Burke, arrived in newly surveyed Goulbourn Township. These formed the advanced party of a military settlement planned and supported by the quartermaster-general's department. Here they laid out a town site named after the governor general, the Duke of Richmond. Storehouses were built, settlers' cabins erected and the colonists provided with farm implements and rations. Under the general supervision of Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cockburn, about 400 heads of families, including some civilians, were established in the settlement by the end of 1818, thus forming the first large community within the present Carleton County.

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