A marble tablet was installed in People’s Memorial United Church in memory of the brave volunteers who fell at Lime Ridge on 2 June 1866 while defending the Niagara frontier against Fenians. The stanza inscribed on the tablet is from the poem 'Hallowed Ground' by Thomas Campbell.
The Toronto militia volunteers were fighting Irish-American Fenian insurgents who had invaded Canada near Fort Erie in the hopes of holding Canada ransom for Irish independence. Between 1866 and 1871, this group raided Canadian territory from New Brunswick to Manitoba. Nine riflemen from Toronto’s The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada were killed.
