Born at Beamsville and educated at Victoria College and the University of Toronto, Locke taught at Toronto, Chicago and Harvard Universities and was Dean of Education at Chicago and at MacDonald College before becoming Chief Librarian of . . . — — Map (db m245439) HM
Jacob Beam (1728 - 1812) was a British Loyalist from Sussex County, New Jersey. During the American Revolution, he was jailed, fined and stripped of his land as punishment for assisting the British army.
The Beam family, including Jacob's wife . . . — — Map (db m245443) HM
By the 1870s, farms were switching from grain/cattle production to the more lucrative fruit cultivation. Clark Snure, a local businessman, saw this trend and established "Jordan Apple Works" on this site.
The products, barrels of dried fruits, . . . — — Map (db m245640) HM
This Regency-style cottage was built circa 1840. The original building was almost square in plan, and the interior wooden flooring suggests that it had a small front living room, two bedrooms and a kitchen/work area. The exterior featured a hipped . . . — — Map (db m245557) HM
Following the American Revolution, Mennonites living in Pennsylvania began to come to the Niagara Peninsula in search of good farm land. A small group settled on land west of Twenty Mile Creek in 1786. Then, in 1799, Jacob Moyer, Abraham . . . — — Map (db m245487) HM
This monument was erected on the site of the first Mennonite meetinghouse in Canada to commemorate 200 years of Mennonite settlement in this country.
The monument was designed to unite a number of symbolic elements. Interlocked wheels . . . — — Map (db m245742) HM
During the War of 1812 the Mennonite congregation meeting on this site included members who followed their conscience and refused to serve in the military. Other Mennonite settlements in Niagara, Rainham, Markham and Waterloo faced the same issue at . . . — — Map (db m245739) HM
