At the Rotary Park north viewpoint along the Laura Secord Legacy Trail you can look across the valley of Twelve Mile Creek.
This ridge of land – the Niagara Escarpment - was a natural geologic and navigational beacon for First Nations. Laura Secord would have used it like that too.
Santee Smith, a Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River, explains.
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