Montgomery's Tavern
A battle was fought here at the corner of Montgomery Avenue and Yonge Street just north of Eglinton Avenue back in 1837. This Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque has this to say:
On this site stood Montgomery's Tavern, headquarters of William Lyon MacKenzie, leader of the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, and scene of the brief skirmish in which, on 7 December 1837, the rebels were overcome by a force of militia commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel James Fitzgibbon. Though unsuccessful in its primary objective, the uprising, by forcing the issue of unrequited grievances against the dominant "Family Compact", contributed significantly to the legislative union of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841 and to the establishment in Canada of responsible government.
Location Co-ordinates: 43.709432 -79.399137
Photo by Alan L Brown - September 2006
Related pages:
David Gibson
Mackenzie House
Samuel Lount and Peter Matthews
William Lyon Mackenzie
Related pages from my 'Ontario's Historical Plaques' website:
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Moodie 1778-1837
Mackenzie's Crossing 1837
Samuel Lount 1791-1838
Peter Matthews c.1789-1838
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