The Battle of Ridgeway Tablet was consecrated on 16 May 2012. It is dedicated to The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada's casualties from the Battle of Ridgeway on 2 June 1866.
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.
