Ontario's Historical Plaques
ontarioplaques.ca
Discover Ontario's history as told through its plaques
2004 - Now in our 15th Year - 2019
Site updated April 21, 2019
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Ontario's Historical Plaques was launched in March 2004 by the late Alan L. Brown, a retired school librarian with a lifelong passion for plaques. In retirement, he set out with a digital camera to document each of the Provincial government's Ontario Heritage Trust plaques and create a dedicated page for each one on this site. (more)
Here's our Plaque of the Day,
one of the 1514 plaques on this
website.
A different plaque photo appears each day.
You can
click on the photo to visit its page.
Here are the latest plaque pages
with a new comment added by a
visitor to this site.
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(continued from the top of this page) Beginning
in May 2009, Alan also began adding all the Federal government's
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
plaques in Ontario to the website. This site includes only provincial
and federal plaques. Although there are thousands of local ones
erected throughout the province, due to time constraints and the fact
the site was independently operated, it remained focused on these two
sources.
Visitors can explore plaques using the 'Index', 'Subjects',
'Locations', 'Map', and 'Search' links found in the top and bottom
menus. The menus also link to related websites and offer a way to
contact the site's current administrator via 'Email'.
This site is indexed by the
FreeFind search engine.
Note that all the historical plaques in the City of Toronto are not
posted here but are available on the companion website,
torontoplaques.ca.
Special thanks go to Wayne Cook for granting permission to republish
plaque text from his
website.
Photos on this site are freely available for download. Please credit
"Source: ontarioplaques.ca" near any images used.
Images may be used under the "Creative Commons Attribution-Share
Alike" license at Wikipedia.
This website continues to preserve and share the historical legacy of
Ontario, built on the dedication and initiative of its original
founder, Alan L. Brown (1945–2023).
The following 141 individuals and organizations generously contributed
plaque photographs to this site:
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Wayne Adam |
Thomas William Kirkbride |
If you'd like to see the photos they contributed, just copy their name and paste it into the box on my Search Page.