Wilkins Expedition Plaque

THE WILKINS EXPEDITION
1763
On November 7, 1763 a fleet of small boats carrying nearly
700 officers and men of the 60th and 80th Regiments
under Major John Wilkins, was forced ashore by a violent
storm about 5 km east of this point. The expedition
had set out from Niagara on October 19 to relieve the
British post at Detroit, commanded by Major Henry Gladwin,
which was then under siege by a powerful force of Indians
led by Pontiac. Some seventy men and twenty boats with
most of the supplies were lost in the storm. Wilkins and
the survivors reached the shore where they buried the
dead and encamped for five days before returning to Niagara.

Erected by the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board.