Gananoque

In 1749, the Sulpician missionary Abbé Francois Picquet built a fort where the Oswegatchie River empties into the St. Lawrence River (present-day Ogdensburg, New York). He invited the Iroquois to Fort de La Présentation to learn about Catholicism. To settle at La Présentation, families had to agree to live monogamously, convert to Catholicism, give up alcohol and swear allegiance to France. By 1751, 396 Haudenosaunee families, largely Onondaga with some Oneida and Cayuga, had settled between Toniato Creek (now known as Jones Creek, in Thousand Islands National Park) and the Long Sault. They came to be called the Oswegatchie. This was one of the Seven Nations of Canada.

While never allowed as a separate tribal member of the Iroquois Confederation, the Oswegatchie were considered "nephews" because of their members' family ties to the Six Nations. When the Seven Years' War broke out between France and England, the Oswegatchie fought with the French on numerous raids in the Ohio, Champlain and Mohawk valleys, where they attacked British colonists.

After the British conquered the French in 1760, British soldiers were stationed at La Présentation, which they renamed Fort Oswegatchie. The Oswegatchie who remained there after the conquest swore allegiance to the British. They fought alongside them on raids on the Mohawk Valley against American rebel colonists during the American Revolution.

In 1784, the Oswegatchie surrendered the frontage on the north shore of the St. Lawrence to the British and settled in Lisbon, New York.

After the end of the Revolutionary War, the British remained at the fort until 1796 and evacuated after the border between Canada and the United States was decided. European-American pioneers from New England and lower New York arrived in June 1796 and began settling in the area. By 1806, United States troops drove the Oswegatchie out of their permanent settlement at Lisbon. Many families resettled at St. Regis (Akwesasne) and other native communities in Canada.

Gananoque is a town in Ontario, Canada's Leeds and Grenville area. In the 2021 Canadian Census, the town had a population of 5,383 year-round residents and summer residents, sometimes called "Islanders" because of the Thousand Islands in the Saint Lawrence River, Gananoque's most important tourist attraction. The Gananoque River flows through the town, and the St. Lawrence River is its southern boundary. 

Colonel Joel Stone, who served with the Loyalist militia during the American Revolutionary War, established a settlement in 1789 and was granted land as a mill site.

During the War of 1812, American forces raided the town's government depot to disrupt the British supply flow between Kingston and Montreal. The raiders seized the supplies they found and burned the depot. Within a month of the raid, construction of the Gananoque Blockhouse was started, with completion in 1813. It had an octagonal log parapet containing five guns. The blockhouse was abandoned after the War of 1812 and given to a private landowner.

The blockhouse was quickly repaired in the 1837–38 Patriot War when there were fears American militia forces were planning to attack. The Gananoque Blockhouse stood until 1852

Gananoque Police Service is a small law enforcement agency in the Eastern Ontario community of Gananoque.

Unlike other towns and villages in Ontario, which have disbanded their municipal police forces in favour of contracting with the Ontario Provincial Police, the Gananoque Police Service continues to grow.

UPPER CANADA VILLAGE

Upper Canada Village is a heritage park near Morrisburg, Ontario, which depicts a 19th-century village in Upper Canada. 

Construction of Upper Canada Village began in 1958 as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway project, which required the permanent flooding of ten communities in the area, known as The Lost Villages. Upper Canada Village was a part of the project's heritage preservation plan. Many of the buildings in Upper Canada Village were transported directly from the villages to be flooded.

The park, owned and operated by the St. Lawrence Parks Commission, was opened in 1961.

Other buildings from the Lost Villages were moved to Ault Park, which now comprises a living museum run by the Lost Villages Historical Society.

The park also incorporates a memorial to the Battle of Crysler's Farm, a War of 1812 battle on land submerged by the Seaway project.

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