4500 Queen St.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
L2E 2L5

Phone : (905) 374-6667
Your Host(s) : Canada Post Niagara Falls

Description From Owner:

• Pop. 5,134. Part of the City of Niagara Falls, Reg. Mun. of Niagara, on the Welland and Niagara Rs. and on the Niagara Parkway, 5 km. S of Niagara Falls.
• The village was the site of a French stockade before the British conquest of Canada in 1759, and during the American Revolution a British blockhouse known as Fort Chippewa stood here.
• Thomas Cummings, a Scot who had lived in Albany, New York, was the frrst settler and built a house in 1783 on the banks ofthe WeIland R., then known as Chippewa Cr.
• . In 1799 the settlement was called Fort Welland, and in 1835 the name was changed to Bridgewater.
• The Post office, called Chippawa, and believed derived from an Ojibwa word, opened in 1801.
• The community was heavily damaged during the War of 1812. In 1813 a British and Canadian force crossed to the American side of the Niagara River from Chippewa and attacked the depot at Fort Schlosser.
• The successful raid inspired other raids along the frontier. Under cover of darkness on Dec. 29, 1837, volunŽteers commanded by Capt. Andrew Drew of the Royal Navy, captured the AmeŽrican schooner Caroline,
• which had been supplying Mackenzie's rebel forces on Navy I. in the Niagara R. The ship was set on ftre and sunk in the Niagara R.
• The Sir Adam Beck Hydro-Electric Power Project, begun in 1917, used an intake of water from the Niagara R. at Chippawa through a cut made a century before for the first WeIland Canal.
• In 1841 at the age of 65, heroine Laura Secord bought a house here and lived in it until her death at age 93. A memorial stone in a local cemetery describes her heroic act of 1813. See also under Queenston.
• From Ontario Place Names 2007 David E. Scott Ph. 866 471 4123 or 905 680 7884

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