3D digital image of a George II 12 pound Iron Gun recovered from North Bay Carleton Island in 1973. The gun is on display at Sacketts Harbor Battle Field in Sacketts Harbor NY.
Friday, June 04, 2021
Saturday, July 06, 2019
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Modern technology opens window into the Thousand Islands
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2017
LIDAR Image of Fort Haldimand, section circled in white shows about
400 feet of undisturbed outer earthworks.
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Thursday, May 26, 2016
On May 24 and May 25 WWNY TV 7 aired a two part series by reporter John
Moore called "Secrets of Carleton Island."
The story was initiated by information found on www.forthaldimand.com
with information about the 1970s underwater excavation of a revolutionary war ship and computer models of Fort Haldimand.
Permission to film on Carleton Island was provided by Thousand Islands Land
Trust [TILT]. Their web site is http://tilandtrust.org
Artifacts were displayed and shown through the courtesy of the New York
State Museum
Monday, March 14, 2016
Friday, June 05, 2015
A Plan of Fort Haldimand, a composite sketch from historical sources
As part of the effort to develop a computer model of Fort Haldimand a
reference sketch has been developed to identify major features with their
historical references. Over the next few posts each item in the sketch will be
reviewed. This will be the basis of the next model.
Monday, February 16, 2015
Lt. James Glenie, one of the key individuals in the construction of Fort Haldimand
The 1988 Syracuse Harold America story “Retracing a soldiers past" tells of a visit by the great great great grandson of James Glenie to Carleton Island.
Lt. James Glenie was one of the key individuals in the construction of Fort Haldimand.
From: Dictionary of Canadian Biography
In the summer of 1778 Glenie accompanied Lieutenant William Twiss to Oswegatchie (Ogdensburg, N.Y.) and Cataraqui (Kingston, Ont.) in search of a suitable site for a supply depot which Haldimand hoped to establish at the eastern end of Lake Ontario. Once Twiss had decided upon Buck Island (N. Y.), which he proposed to rename Carleton Island, he sent Glenie to report to Haldimand, expressing his confidence in him. Haldimand agreed with Twiss’s proposal for a post on Carleton Island, but as soon as the proposed works were well launched Twiss was to leave for Montreal and Glenie would “oversee and carry on that Business in your absence.”
Read more at: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/glenie_james_5E.html
Lt. James Glenie was one of the key individuals in the construction of Fort Haldimand.
From: Dictionary of Canadian Biography
In the summer of 1778 Glenie accompanied Lieutenant William Twiss to Oswegatchie (Ogdensburg, N.Y.) and Cataraqui (Kingston, Ont.) in search of a suitable site for a supply depot which Haldimand hoped to establish at the eastern end of Lake Ontario. Once Twiss had decided upon Buck Island (N. Y.), which he proposed to rename Carleton Island, he sent Glenie to report to Haldimand, expressing his confidence in him. Haldimand agreed with Twiss’s proposal for a post on Carleton Island, but as soon as the proposed works were well launched Twiss was to leave for Montreal and Glenie would “oversee and carry on that Business in your absence.”
Read more at: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/glenie_james_5E.html
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