Grand River Naval Depot
This page suggest that the Grand River Naval Depot was never completed (built). It was built though due to the Rush Bagot Treaty it never saw it full potential. It is believed that at it height it housed a couple hundred men and contained eithteen buildings. There are many site on Google if you search "Grand River Naval Depot." Though there may have been some very small part of the Depot where Esplanade Park in Port Maitland is today, it never stood there. The depot was on the opposite side of the Grand River in Sherbrooke Twp.
Grand River Naval Depot was a planned base on Lake Erie in what is now Port Maitland, Ontario, Canada.
| Grand River Naval Depot | |
|---|---|
| Port Maitland, Ontario | |
| Type | Shipyard, naval base |
| Built | planned |
| In use | never built |
| Controlled by | Royal Navy - never built |
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Located at the mouth of the Grand River, the naval base was to have been built as a second naval base on Lake Erie intended to complement the base at Navy Island. It was to have stationed 1,000 sailors and 3 frigates and was to have been a key player in the War of 1812 and the Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817. It was never completed and the site was abandoned by the Royal Navy. It is now the site of Esplanade Park in Port Maitland.
