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          For those who only know her as a brand of confection, Secord was a crazy-tough pioneer woman on the Niagara peninsula who raised seven children.

          A fictionalized biography of Laura Secord, who risked her life to warn the British of an impending American attack on Beaver Dams....

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          Biography of Laura Secord 



           

           
          Heritage Minute on Laura Secord

           

          INGERSOLL, LAURA (Secord), heroine; b.

          13 Sept. 1775 in Great Barrington, Mass., eldest daughter of Thomas Ingersoll and Elizabeth Dewey; d. 17 Oct. 1868, at Chippawa (Niagara Falls, Ont.).

                When Laura Ingersoll was eight, her mother died, leaving four little girls.

          Her father remarried twice and had a large family by his third wife.

          Historian Connie Brummel Crook dramatizes the life of Laura Secord, one of Canada's most enduring heroines.

        1. Historian Connie Brummel Crook dramatizes the life of Laura Secord, one of Canada's most enduring heroines.
        2. The story of Laura Ingersoll Secord, from her early days in Massachusetts and her family's immigration to Upper Canada to her part in the War of
        3. A fictionalized biography of Laura Secord, who risked her life to warn the British of an impending American attack on Beaver Dams.
        4. In Acts of Courage, Connie Brummel Crook dramatizes the life of one of Canada's most enduring heroines, Laura Secord.
        5. Synopsis.

          6. In the American War of Independence, Ingersoll fought on the rebel side, but in 1795 he immigrated to Upper Canada where he had obtained a township grant for settlement. His farm became the site of the modern town of Ingersoll.

          He ran a tavern at Queenston until his township (Oxford-upon-the-Thames) was surveyed. Within two years, about 1797, Laura married James Secord, a young merchant of Queenston. He was the youngest son of a loyalist officer of Butler’s Rangers,