The Friends of Laura Secord will break ground today on a project that includes a First Nations Peace Monument at DeCew House Heritage Park in Thorold.
The group says the monument will be designed to generate a deeper understanding of the important role that First Nations peoples played in the founding of Canada and the importance of reconciliation with our First Nations brothers and sisters of today.
Today's Shovel in the Ground Event, which gets underway at 12:15 this afternoon, marks the construction of the accessible path to the monument.
The monument was designed pro bono by world-renowned and celebrated Siksika Blackfoot architect and First Nations activist and architect, Douglas Cardinal.
It will stand close to the actual site that Canadian heroine Laura Secord first encountered First Nations warriors in DeCew’s Field as they escorted her during the final kilometre of her courageous trek to DeCew House to warn the British forces of an impending American invasion.