Where to stop with kids between Montreal and Toronto - Fort Henry

Right after Prehistoric World we visited another interesting place on our car trip to The Bruce Peninsula – Fort Henry.

Fort outside.

This time we moved not too far in the past. We traveled to 1832 of the Canadian history.

Fort Henry was constructed for the War of 1812, then later demolished and rebuilt from 1832 to 1837. It stands on the highest point in Kingston, overlooking Wolfe Island and the St. Lawrence River.

View from the Fort on St. Lawrence River.

Fort Henry stood as a defense but never saw battle, and was later used as an important gunnery school. It represents Canada’s largest fortification west of Quebec City.

Fort Henry deploys a white Saanen goat as the Fort Mascot, named David XI.

Fort Mascot - David. — Fort Mascot – David.

The fort is open for visitors and has around 100 employees, 85 out of them are students. There is an interesting program through out the day and it is different from day to day.

The main activity of the fort is a guided tour, but we skipped it and walked around on our pace. I don’t think Maxim would have a patience for the organized tour.

Cannons and Garrison parade.

One of the main attraction of every fort, and Fort Henry is not an exception, are cannons.

There are small guns and big guns. And they are still working.

Nowadays soldiers are training with these old guns

and even fire from them.

Firing from the cannon during the training.

The most interesting part of our visit was Garrison parade.

Cannon fire, great work of all participants, overall just WOW!

Fort inside.

Officers tended to come from the upper classes of British society. In the Infantry, ranks could be purchased up to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Promotion of the officers in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers happened according to seniority.

This room is furnished for a subaltern or junior officer.

Classroom to teach officers tactics and discuss other hot topics of the day.

You can participate in “Fort Fright” event. Scare yourself, your family and friends as nightmares come to life throughout fort’s ditches and tunnels. Remember to breath 🙂

When we were leaving we purchased very tasty, baked in the fire oven, cinnamon pie. It was the best treat at the end of this very intense day.

In this kitchen they bake very delicious apple pies.

We highly recommend to visit Fort Henry to all interested in history and just for fun 🙂 .

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Montreal – Bruce Peninsula. Road trip. – Adventurion

July 1, 2019

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