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The 1782 Peter Secord House, Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario (1.5 hr drive from Toronto).

When it was built, George III (The Mad King) was on the throne, and Napoleon was still a student. Loyalist citizen Laura Secord, of the same family as Peter, was the Canadian counterpart to the American hero Paul Revere.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secord_family

 

The Secord family (originally Sicard) was a colonial New York family whose loyalties were split during the American Revolution. The family traces its origins back to Ambroise Sicard who was born in France about 1631. Sicard, a Huguenot, brought his family to British America in 1688 to escape religious persecution. Although a few of his descendants were active as Patriots during the American Revolution, a significant number were Loyalists who joined British provincial regiments such as Butler's Rangers, and afterwards settled in what is now Ontario and New Brunswick.

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