What Blockhouse? What Island?

The Small Island off Brockville and Its History
It was not much more than a rocky outcropping covered with grass and shrubs when the village of Buell’s Bay was first developing on the present site of Brockville.
The earliest name attached to what we now know as “Blockhouse Island”, was “Refuge Island.” For what reason, we don’t [...]

A View of Eastern Ontario and Northern New York following the American-British War of 1775-1783

1784 Map - showing Upper Canada & northern New York State

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Geographically, the area shown in this map is well-known to most people [...]