Fort Henry National Historic Site
British fortress of the 1830s above Kingston harbour, part of the Rideau Canal World Heritage Site
Fort Henry stands on Point Henry, the ridge between Kingston harbour and the St Lawrence River, guarding the naval dockyard on Point Frederick and the southern end of the Rideau Canal. A first earth and stone work was thrown up during the War of 1812; the present fortress, built by the Royal Engineers between 1832 and 1836, replaced it with a stone redoubt, an advanced battery, dry ditches and casemated walls, supported by four Martello towers around the harbour. It never came under attack.
The garrison left in 1870 and the buildings decayed until a relief-work restoration in the 1930s. Since 1938 the Fort Henry Guard, a troop of students drilled in the uniform and manual of a British infantry regiment of the 1860s, has provided the interpretation. The fort is a National Historic Site administered by Parks Canada and operated by the St Lawrence Parks Commission, and it was included in the Rideau Canal World Heritage Site inscribed by UNESCO in 2007.
Highlights
- Stone redoubt, dry ditch and casemates built by the Royal Engineers
- Fort Henry Guard drills, artillery firings and the Garrison Parade
- Victorian schoolroom, cookhouse and soldiers' barracks rooms
- Views over Kingston harbour, the St Lawrence and the Martello towers
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