Fort York

On one of the last days of Helena being contagious, we had to get out of the house, so we chose a place where there's lots of room and not too many people - Fort York.  This is where the British first settled in the area, and where the major battle of 1812 took place in Canada.  With regards to the buildings on site, there wasn't anything we hadn't seen before.

However, as you can tell from these pictures, the location is smack dab in the middle of the city.  When the fort was first built, it was located in a bog, about 50 feet away from Lake Ontario.  Now it's no longer boggish, as they filled the land in with sand to raise it by 4 feet. The fort is now a kilometer away from the lake, as they've created more land, and it's surrounded by city.  A huge overpass is immediately outside of the fort.  I found it incredibly interesting to really see how the land has been changed in the last 200 years.