land grants – Leslieville Historical Society

The Kingston Road was an Indigenous Trail, a “Moccasin Highway”, surveyed by the British military and minimally improved. It’s chief purpose was to allow troops to move quickly as an alternative to sailing on Lake Ontario. From 1815 to 1817 local settlers built the Kingston or Front Road on a new alignment, closer to theContinue reading “February 2 in Leslieville”