Ontario's Provincial Plaques

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'The Bloody Assize' 1814

Photo by Alan L Brown - April 22, 2004

Plaque Location

The City of Hamilton
In Ancaster, on Wilson Street East, north side, east of Sulphur Springs Road

Plaque Text

During the war of 1812 marauding bands of renegade settlers, many of whom had defected to the United States from the Niagara and London Districts were active in Southwestern Upper Canada. A number were captured and in May 1814 nineteen prisoners were indicted for High Treason. A special court was authorized to sit at Ancaster and the acting attorney general John Beverly Robinson instructed to prosecute. The trials were conducted by Chief Justice Thomas Scott and Puisné Judges William Dummer Powell and William Campbell. Fifteen were condemned to death as traitors. On July 20, 1814, eight were executed at Burlington Heights and the remainder sentenced to exile. These trials became known as the "Bloody Assize".

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