Main Intersection (3)

The intersection in Port Stanley where Joseph
Street, Bridge Street, Colborne Street and Main Streets meet has long
been referred to as Port Stanley’s main intersection. Several of the
postcards on this site show different views of this intersection. The
stone cairn in the middle of the intersection was erected by the
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada in 1924.
The plaque on the cairn reads: Kettle Creek was called by the Iroquois the “Kanagio”,
by the Ojibwas the “Akasibi”, by the French the “Riviere Tonti”. Among
early visitors were: Louis Jolliet. September 1669, Dollier and
Galinée, April 1870, the Celoron expedition, October 1749; Sir William
Johnson, 26th August,1761; Colonel Thomas Talbot,1801; Lord
Stanley,1824. First settler, John Bostwick,1804. General Brock’s
expedition encamped on the beach, 9th August 1812, on its way to Detroit.
The green and white building close to the middle of this photograph
was the Clifton House Hotel which burned down in 1991. The building on
the far left of the photograph is still standing. Port Stanley old
timers remember it as Charlie Lock’s variety store but tell us that it
used to be a livery stable.