The Market Battery

Stood on this site from 1848 to 1875. With Shoal Tower opposite it defended Kingston Harbour and the Rideau Canal. From 1875 this was a public park. In 1885 the Kingston and Pembroke railway station was built.

Marker is on Ontario Street 0.05 kilometers south of Brock Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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