page_title: Upper Canada Village
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Upper Canada Village / History
caption_attribution_description: Upper Canada Village, living open-air-museum; Ontario, Canada
context_page_description: Upper Canada Village is a heritage park near Morrisburg, Ontario, which depicts a 19th-century village in Upper Canada.
context_section_description: Construction of Upper Canada Village began in 1958 as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway project, which required the permanent flooding of ten communities in the area, known as The Lost Villages. Upper Canada Village was a part of the project's heritage preservation plan. Many of the buildings in Upper Canada Village were transported directly from the villages to be flooded.
  The park, owned and operated by the St. Lawrence Parks Commission, was opened to the public in 1961.
  Other buildings from the Lost Villages were moved to Ault Park, where they comprise a living museum run by the Lost Villages Historical Society.
  The park also incorporates a memorial to the Battle of Crysler's Farm, a War of 1812 battle which also took place on land submerged by the Seaway project.
caption: Upper Canada Village
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