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4 unusual facts about Fort Erie


Fleet Aircraft

Reuben H. Fleet founded Fleet Aircraft in Fort Erie, Ontario, to acquire the foreign rights to these aircraft.

Fort Erie, Ontario

Fort Erie Race Track has hosted live thoroughbred racing since 1897.

The event takes place on the south-east grounds of the Fort Erie Race Track.

Josiah Trowbridge

On September 22, 1813, he married Margaret Wintermute of Fort Erie, Ontario.


Broderick Park

Broderick Park is situated within easy view of the Peace Bridge, which links the State of New York with the Canadian Province of Ontario at Fort Erie.

Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The first leg, the Queen's Plate, is contested at 1¼ miles on Polytrack at Toronto, Ontario's Woodbine Racetrack, whereas the July Prince of Wales Stakes is a 1³/16 mile event run on dirt at Fort Erie Racetrack in Fort Erie, Ontario.

John Stoughton Dennis

In 1866, Dennis led an ill-fated militia attack against the Fenians at Fort Erie.

Knob Hill Farms

Another mural facing the south side featuring Southern Ontario from downtown Toronto, with a street written as "Baloor" instead of Bloor Street and the Don Valley Parkway, the western suburbs, the Hamilton Mountain, Niagara Falls and near Fort Erie.

Megan Smith

Smith grew up in Buffalo, New York, and Fort Erie, Ontario, and spent many summers at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, where her mother was Director of the Chautauqua Children's School.

Peace Bridge robins

The Peace Bridge robins were a family of American Robins that nested for several years in the 1930s on the Canadian side of the Peace Bridge, which connects Buffalo, New York to Fort Erie, Ontario.


see also

Battle of Fort Erie

Siege of Fort Erie (1814), immediately following the Capture of Fort Erie

CKEY

CFLZ-FM, a radio station (101.1 FM) licensed to Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, which held the call sign CKEY-FM from 1991 to 2011