Title

Conestoga Wagon Trek Monument with the Upper Niagara River in the background

Description

en-CA The border between Canada and the United States of America has witnessed many migrations of people. At two times, however, the migration was primarily from south to north. That was in the troubled days just prior to the American Revolutionary War and during the uneasy decades when the new republic was being formed. During the last two decades of the 18th century, many people, motivated by loyalty to the British Crown and fearing some aspects of the course being set by the new United States, sold prosperous farms in Pennsylvania and moved their possessions by conestoga wagon to Ontario. They entered the Niagara River at Black Rock, N.Y. and probably landed at or near this point. Many were German speaking people known as Pennsylvania Dutch. They came from Lancaster and neighbouring counties in Pennsylvania and settled in the Fort Erie area, Jordan, Vineland, the Markham area and Kitchener-Waterloo. Their unconquerable courage and inflexible faith, together with hard work and much sacrifice, helped to establish many of the churches and the farming and business enterprises in this and other areas of the province of Ontario. This marker was erected by persons who, in 1997, celebrated the 200th anniversary of their foreparents journey from Pennsylvannia to Ontario by re-enecting their trek.

Identifier

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/show.asp?b=1&ref=oo&id=362921

Creator

Rodman, Heather

Type

Still Image

Is Part Of

Niagara Falls Public Library Digital Collections

Medium

Colour Digital Image

Provenance

Donated by Heather Rodman

Date Copyrighted

20120205

Subject

Monuments

Niagara Parkway / Boulevard

Niagara River - Upper

Spatial Coverage

Canada - Ontario - Niagara Falls

Source

Niagara Falls (Ont.) Public Library

Date Created

2012-04-25

Date Modified

2012-04-25