"Queenstown, Upper Canada on the Niagara" (now known as Queenston, Ontario) by Edward Walsh. Travellers on horseback, cart, and foot traverse the wide dirt road, whilst houses are near the shore of the Niagara River. Queenston is just north of Niagara Falls and the site of the the battle of Queenston Heights on October 13, 1812, in the War of 1812, when the Canadians and British defeated the American forces that invaded the town. Edward Walsh was a surgeon to the 49th Regiment and served in Canada from 1803-1807.

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Landmarks such as the shoreline of the Niagara River, the descent into Deep Hollow (the ravine which leads down to Hamilton landing on the Niagara river), the distinctive presence and venerable multi-chimneyed Hamilton residence, and the rise of land approaching Queenston Heights give clues as to where Edward Walsh set up his easel some time between 1803 and 1807.

New trees have grown to obscure the view, land use is different, and settlement patterns have changed, so we can no longer find exactly the same perspective that artist Edward Walsh used for his evocative watercolour painting of the Village of Queenston. But based on clues which still remain in the landscape, it was probably painted from a vantage point somewhere near here, atop the hill at the north end of the Village of Queenston, just south of the modern-day intersection of Queenston Street and the Niagara Parkway.

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