The De Puisaye Settlement 1799

10/10 would visit plaque again

Smells like fish

Located in front of St. John's Anglican Church beside the flag pole. This plaque commemorates the French Royalist settlement that was on this site. Also of interest at this location is the church and cemetery.The plaque says;In the fall of 1798 some 40 exiled French Royalists under the leadership of Joseph-Genevieve, Comte de Puisaye (1754-1827), emigrated from England to Upper Canada. The following year they were given rations and agricultural implements and settled along Yonge Street in the townships of Markham and Vaughan. However, these members of the nobility and their servants were unable to adapt themselves to a pioneer existence and by 1806 their settlement, known as Windham, was abandoned. De Puisaye lived for a time on an estate near Niagara, but returned to England in 1802.

Located in front of a church on Yonge St. A historical plaque describing the failure of an early settlement started by French loyalists.