War of 1812 Battle of Lundy's Lane, Niagara Falls Millennium Project
     
 

About this Millennium Project ...

Our foundation has the opportunity to obtain a grant of up to $228,000 from the Canada Millennium Bureau. Our Canada Millennium Partnership Project will begin the development, into a historical park, of the 10 acres of the Lundy’s Lane Battlefield owned by the City of Niagara Falls.

After 185 years, the tide has finally turned for this site. The Millennium funding will enable a fitting commemoration at last to begin ... a commemoration both to those who fought so valiantly at Lundy’s Lane and to the "peace which has long endured" between nations which clashed here 185 years ago.

The federal funding is contingent upon two-thirds matching funds. The City of Niagara Falls has approved in principle contributing a one-third share. Our foundation has until March 2001 to raise its matching $228,000. Any monies not in place by that date will be deducted in equal part from the Federal contribution.

A Master Plan for the Battlefield was completed in 1998. It calls for three stages of development, requiring almost $2 million in Stages 1 & 2. The destination attraction planned for Stage 3 will bring the overall investment to $4 or $5 million.

Ten thousand people attended the Centenary Celebration in 1914. The Battle Bicentenary lies only 14 years away -- in 2014. We would like the Destination Attraction to be completed by this date. Our Canada Millennium Partnership Project offers an excellent opportunity to progress toward this goal.

The funding will ensure that the 1830s Fralick’s Tavern (part of the late Ruth Redmond’s gift) will be restored according to her wishes, and converted into a Visitors’ Centre. Restoration and improvements in the Drummond Hill Cemetery (where Canadian War of 1812 heroine Laura Secord is buried), landscaping, and exhibits are other items the funding will make possible.

  The project needs your help!   $228,000 must be raised by
March 2001

Maximize the impact of your charitable giving...

Every $1 contributed is worth $3
because of the matching funds
it will bring from the
federal and municipal governments


Membership is available for only $10.00 per year.

Memberships and donations are eligible for a charitable tax receipt.

(Charitable Registration Number 86983 1396 RR0001)

Over 14 million people visit Niagara Falls each year.
The Battlefield lies only a mile from the world-famous cataracts.
Donor recognition will be provided on the Battlefield.

The Lundy’s Lane Battlefield is an internationally significant site.
British, U.S., Canadian, Native and Metis warriors fought here.
We have a partnership with the Canadian Metis Council and
the site has been recognized federally, provincially, and municipally:

The Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada has recognized this site and placed a plaque in Drummond Hill Cemetery.

The lands Ruth Redmond gave are protected by an Ontario Heritage Foundation Heritage Conservation Easement.

Fralick’s Tavern is designated under The Ontario Heritage Act.

Please join us in commemorating the "peace which has long endured."

Contributions should be sent to:

Friends of the Lundy’s Lane Battlefield

8999 Niagara River Blvd.

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Canada L2E 6S6

 

 If you would like us to bill your VISA or MasterCard contact us at:

(905) 295-6227

or

email: battle@vaxxine.com

MAY WE RECOMMEND . . .

Books about the battle . . .

Cruickshank, Ernest
The Battle of Lundy’s Lane
(Lundy’s Lane Historical Society, Niagara Falls, Ontario 1984; first published 1893)

Graves, Donald
Where Right and Glory Lead! The Battle of Lundy’s Lane, 1814
(Revised paperback edition, Robin Brass Studio, Toronto, 1997;
first published 1993 by Nautical & Aviation Publishing Co. of America as
The Battle of Lundy’s Lane: On the Niagara in 1814)
ISBN I-896941-03-6

Participants’ Memoirs . . .

Merry Hearts Make Light Days:  The War of 1812 Journal of Lieutenant John Le Couter, 104th Foot
Edited by Donald Graves
(Carleton University Press, Ottawa, 1993) ISBN 0-88629-225-5

Soldiers of 1814: American Enlisted Men’s Memoirs of the Niagara Campaign
Edited by Donald Graves
(Old Fort Niagara Press, Youngstown, N.Y. 1996)
ISBN 0-941967-16-6

... we also wish to recognize:

Michael’s Inn for their sponsorship of this web site!

Computan Internet Access for donating web space for our site!