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The Francois Baby House

Photos by Alan L Brown - June, 2009

Plaque Location

In The City of Windsor in The County of Essex
at coordinates N 42 18.918 W 83 02.417
at 254 Pitt Street West.

Plaque Text

This house and adjacent farmland were the property of François Baby (1763-1856), first member for Kent in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada (1792-96), militia officer and Assistant Quarter Master General during the War of 1812. When the Americans invaded Canada in July 1812, Brigadier General William Hull set up his headquarters in François Baby's house and camped his troops on the farm. After Hull's withdrawal, British guns mounted here covered Isaac Brock's advance across the river to capture Detroit on 16 August 1812.

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