Major-General The Honourable Aeneas Shaw

Photos by Alan L Brown - Posted April, 2004

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At Trinity Bellwoods Park on Queen Street West just to the right of the entrance gates one sees an Archaeological and Historic Sites Board plaque. Here's what it has to say:

Plaque coordinates: 43.645470 -79.412967

Aeneas Shaw, a son of Aeneas, 9th Chief of Clan Ay, was born at Tordarroch, near Inverness, Scotland. A Loyalist, he served in the Queen's Rangers during the American Revolution, and later settled in what is now New Brunswick. Commissioned in the reorganized Queen's Rangers, he went to Quebec in 1792 and from there led the Rangers' first division to Upper Canada. The following year he settled at York (now Toronto) and later built a house in this vicinity. He was appointed to the Executive and Legislative Councils in 1794. In 1807 he became Adjutant-General of Militia, was promoted Major-General in 1811, and served in the War of 1812. He died at York, February 6, 1814.

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this is my great great grandpa =D

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