National Historic Site of Canada

Ridgeway Battlefield is located within a four-hectare parcel of parkland in the small community of Ridgeway. It marks the location where Irish-American veterans of the U.S. Civil War fought Canadian forces in an attempt to gain Ireland’s independence of England in June 1866.

The site of the battle is commemorated by a cairn and interpretive signs on the north side of Garrison Road between Ridge Road and Burleigh Road.