Celebrating the Saviour of Upper Canada: A monument at Queenston Heights. Celebrating the Saviour of Upper Canada: A monument at Queenston Heights (U.S. National Park Service) When completed in 1856, this column was one of the highest structures in the world and a fitting tomb for Brock, whose remains are interred in its base. Placed on the brow of the Niagara escarpment overlooking the Niagara River that is the border between Canada and the United States, it can be seen for miles and towers over the surrounding countryside, including the neighbouring part of New York State. This physical dominance was deliberate for, as one modern Canadian historian has remarked, Brock’s splendid memorial testified, in a most visible way (especially to Americans on the other side of the river), the veneration of Upper Canadians for the man deemed responsible for their survival; as James Hannay later wrote: “the lofty column erected to his memory informs the whole world that patriotism still lives in Canada.”.
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