REGISTER NOW! Laura Secord
Commemorative Walk -
June 22, 2013 |
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Welcome to the Friends of Laura Secord website
1901 bust of Laura Secord by Canadian sculptor Amelia Margaret Mildred Peel (1856-1920), at the Laura Secord gravesite in Drummond Hill Cemetery, Niagara Falls, Ontario |
The Friends of Laura Secord is a not-for-profit community group dedicated to sharing the story of our best known national heroine, Laura Ingersoll Secord, whose heroic exploits contributed to the creation of the nation we now know as Canada. This website has been established as an interim measure until our much more comprehensive and ambitious permanent website is created. Thank you for visiting! |
Why celebrate Laura Secord?
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Laura Secord Minute courtesy of the Historica Dominion Institute |
On the evening of June 21, 1813, Laura
Secord overheard American officers billeted at her home in Queenston
discuss plans to capture a British outpost located at John DeCew's
House, 32 kilometres away, near the area called Beaver Dams. Early the
next morning, Laura left her wounded husband and young children and walked
through enemy lines and dangerous terrain to warn the British and their
aboriginal allies of this impending attack by American forces. After many
hours of difficult travel on an exceptionally hot and humid day, she
encountered an encampment of native allies who escorted her to DeCew
House. |
The commanding officer, Lt. James Fitzgibbon, positioned his small contingent of troops and allied aboriginal forces at a strategic interception point along the route, and secured the surrender of nearly 600 American troops at the decisive Battle of Beaver Dams. Without Laura Secord's bold contribution, the country we now know as Canada may not have existed as a nation today. |
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