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 Capt. Fitzgibbon,

information by which he won

the victory of Beaver Dams

Erected 1910

[Back side of Monument]:

James Secord

United Empire Loyalist

Born July 7th, 1773

Died February 22nd, 1841.

Marker can be reached from Niagara Parkway 0.3 kilometers east of Portage Road, on the left when traveling north.

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