Laura Secord

[Front Side of the Monument]:

To perpetuate

the name and fame of

Laura Secord

who walked alone nearly 20

miles by a circuitous difficult

and perilous route, through woods

and swamps and over miry roads

to warn a British outpost at

DeCew’s Falls of an intended attack

and thereby enabled ...

Laura Ingersoll Secord 1775-1868

Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Laura Ingersoll came to Upper Canada with her father in 1795, and settled in this area. About two years later she married James Secord, a United Empire Loyalist, and within seven years they had moved ...

Laura Ingersoll Secord

[Front side of Monument]:

This monument has been

erected by the

Government of Canada

to

Laura Ingersoll Secord

who saved her husband's life

in the battle on these heights,

October 13th, 1812,

and who risked her own

in conveying to ...

Laura Secord (1775-1868)

[English text]:

The celebrated heroine of the war of 1812 is a renowned figure in Canadian History. Determined to warn the British of an impending attack on Beaver Dams, Secord set out from her home on June 22, 1813, on a ...

Home of Laura Ingersoll Secord

[Text inscribed on stone monument]:

Home of

Laura Ingersoll

Secord.

[Text on lower plaque]:

This stone marker was placed in 1901 by the

Women's Literary Club of St. Catharines

to honour Laura Secord and was re-

dedicated in 1972 by members of the

Club on the occasion of ...