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”
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January 28 in Leslieville: the Brook’s Bush Gang
Well, she picked the wrong victim. If you are a smart robber, you don’t mess with the press and you don’t mess with influential politicians. She killed John Sheridan Hogan, a member of the provincial legislature and newspaperman. But this wasn’t the first murder she was involved in, and we know of others.
Leslieville Historical Society 