Laura Secord (née Ingersoll) (
September 13,
1775 –
October 17,
1868) was a
Canadian heroine of the
War of 1812. She is known as Canada's
Paul Revere.Laura Ingersoll was born in
Great Barrington, Massachusetts in
1775. Suffering the aftermath of the
American Revolution, her father,
Thomas Ingersoll, moved the family to
the Canadas in
1795, and in
1797 she married the
Loyalist James Secord, son of an officer of
Butler's Rangers (the Ingersolls themselves were not Loyalists). James and Laura resided in
Queenston in
Upper Canada (present-day
Ontario), while her family went on to settle present day
Ingersoll, Ontario. On
October 13,
1812, James Secord was injured at the
Battle of Queenston Heights, part of the emerging
War of 1812.
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