Historical Signage unveiled on Cannon from Fort Haldimand

Modern technology opens window into the Thousand Islands 

2017 LIDAR Image of Fort Haldimand, section circled in white shows about 400 feet of undisturbed outer earthworks.

On May 24 and May 25 WWNY TV 7 aired a two part series by reporter John
Moore called "Secrets of Carleton Island."  

The 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

North Bay Wreck Page updated.

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develop a computer model of Fort Haldimand a reference sketch has been developed to identify major features with their historical references.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.

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

View of the ruins of Fort Haldimand from late nineteenth century post card.

Newspaper clipping at the Thousand Island Museum in Clayton NY shows a view of the remains of Fort Haldimand seen from the glacis with man standing at on the covert-way. Near intact chimneys in background. Image taken in the late nineteenth century.