On May 14, 1886, a memorial drinking fountain was unveiled at Confederation Park in the memory of Captain Edward T. Brown. Captain Brown died during the Northwest Resistance at Batoche on May 12, 1885. He is the only local militia member to die during that conflict.
Peterborough architect and engineer John E. Belcher designed a structure approximately six and a half feet high which sat upon a base. The monument was made of Ohio sandstone and the base of Warsaw limestone. The fountain rested upon one finial atop a center gable and water flowed from a bronzed lion's head attached to the stone in a deeply recessed and richly moulded Gothic panel.
The fountain was originally placed in the east-central part of the park, but was moved in 1929 after the erection of the war memorial. At this time, the limestone base was replaced with the present one of granite. Today, the inscription is barely legible and the drinking fountain has long ceased to flow.
