Queenston, Ontario
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The Village of Queenston ( ) is located 5 km north of Niagara Falls, Ontario in the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Queenston was first settled in the 1770s by United Empire Loyalist refugees and emigrees from the United States. During the War of 1812, British, Mohawk and Canadian colonial troops repelled an American invasionary force here in the Battle of Queenston Heights. British Major-General Sir Isaac Brock was killed in the battle; the victory and his death are commemorated by an impressive stone tower located atop the Niagara Escarpment and surmounted by a large stone statue of Brock overlooking the village below. Also nearby is a smaller monument to Brock's gray horse Alfred. The village was also the home of Laura Secord, a Canadian heroine of the 1812 war.
Its location on the Escarpment led to an establishment of now-defunct Queenston Quarry in the area.
The village is a control city on Highway 405.
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