Brock Dead House

During the War of 1812, the Brock Dead House was a nearby house on the south-east corner of modern-day Queenston and Partition Streets, owned by Patrick McCabe and facing easterly toward the Niagara River. On 13th of October 1812, after Major-General Sir Isaac Brock was killed at the Battle of Queenston Heights amid deadly gunfire, his body was carried off the field and hidden there in this improvised mortuary, or dead house. Spared the ravages of war, the building remained standing for well over a century, but by the 1920s it was in ruins and before the end of that decade it was torn down.

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