Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
The Ontario-St. Lawrence Development Commission
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Description area
Dates of existence
1955-
History
In 1955 the Ontario government established the Ontario-St Lawrence Development Commission in relation to the start of the St. Lawrence Seaway project that commenced in 1954 all required the flooding river front lands. The commission sponsored the creation of Upper Canada Village to preserve representative buildings and memorialize life as it was along the front. The commission also developed 800 hectares of adjacent parkland and relocated the old monument commemorating the 1813 battle of Crysler's Farm.