Upper Canada Village
The Upper Canada Village is a historical open-air museum on the Saint Lawrence River near Morrisburg ( Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties ) in the Canadian province of Ontario about 100 km south-southeast of Ottawa . Country life around 1860 is presented and staged here using around 40 buildings, including mills, sawmills and workshops.
history
The open-air museum was opened in 1961. Three years earlier, the expansion of the St. Lawrence Seaway was accompanied by the flooding of ten villages. Numerous historical buildings in these places formed the basis of the museum village as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway project. The name refers to the Anglophone called Upper Canada Ontario.
Others
Next to the museum village is a memorial for a battle at Chrysler's Farm in 1813 in the British-American War .
Web links
- Site of Upper Canada Village (Engl.)
Coordinates: 44 ° 56 '50 " N , 75 ° 4' 0.7" W.