Ontario's Historical Plaques

Here's where you can learn a little Ontario history.
Site updated July 2, 2009.

Here's a clickable photo of one of the 1084 plaques on this site.

Here are the 8 latest plaques to be posted on this site.

Click on any of them to go to their webpage.

My name is Alan L Brown and I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I've had an interest in plaques since I was a kid. Now that I'm retired, I set out, in March 2004, with my trusty digital camera, to take a photo of each of the Provincial government's Ontario Heritage Trust plaques and create a page for each on this site. Since January, 2009, I've been adding the plaques' location co-ordinates to many of the pages, which you can copy into a Google map. As well, beginning in May, 2009, I have begun adding all the Federal government's Historical Sites and Monuments Board plaques in Ontario to this site.

Using the menu at the top or bottom of each page, you can access the plaques by way of the Index, Subjects, Locations, and Search links. As well, the menu gives you access to a list of links to other sites, a page that tells you about me and a link to send me an email.

Please note that all the Ontario Historical Plaques in the City of Toronto are not posted here but can be seen on my other website, torontohistory.org

I'd like to acknowledge the work done by Wayne Cook on his website. He has granted me permission to copy his plaque text for use on my website. I'd also like to thank these fine people who have contributed photographs of plaques to this site:
Bill Patterson, Kevin Howard, Dwayne Howard, David & Kellie Clifford, Jean Paul, Lauren Roberts, Jonathan Grigg, Jill Poulin, Zoë Edwards, Bill Moody, Bill Jarvis, Wayne Adam, Merrill Collins, Tony White, Andrew Cresswell, Michael Dube, Burke Lush, Harry Slaunwhite, Karl Jacob, Heather Macdonald, Lianne Johnson Lowens, Mario G. Lafreniere, George Nassas, Ken Watson, Tyler Kells, Colin Semple, John Vanbaal, Michael Kelly, Thomas William Kirkbride, Brian Westhouse, Patrick Davis, Trevor Eaton Cordes, Belinda Betz, Chris Porter, Robert Griffin, Jamie Toeppner, Jay Smith, Debbie Gagain and Robert Staniforth, Dave Fernie, Allison and Dave Corbett, Robert Youngs, Jocelyn Gordon, Barry Sullivan, Cliff Thornton, John Wulff, Betty Ritchie, LeeAnn Beer, Brian Schuette, Mona Albano, Kim Allerton, Pat Harwood, Eugenio DiMeo, Brian Herling, Sherry Roy, John Carman Shultis, Stephanie Spencer, David Brown, Rhonda Fetterly, Aleksandra Krilic, Kal Biro, Dawn Monroe and Steven Smellie. If you'd like to see the photos they contributed, just copy their name and paste it into the box on my Search Page.

I'm looking for more volunteers to photograph plaques. Email me (link at the top of every page) if you are interested. You will receive credit on this page plus be listed as the photographer on the plaque's page. Plaques that still need to be photographed can be found marked with asterisks on our Subject and Location pages.

Besides this site, I run a website for kids called Just For Kids Who Love Books. As well, in July of 2006 I began a site about Toronto's history called torontohistory.org.

All photographs on this site were taken by me unless otherwise acknowledged. My photos are freely available to whomever wishes to download them as long as the source is acknowledged with the words "Photo used with permission from www.ontarioplaques.com." underneath the photo.