Description of Historic Place Queenston Heights is an extensive
hillside area on the Niagara escarpment, centred on a heavily
wooded, landscaped park which includes an elegant 57.9 metres
(190 foot), classical column containing Sir Isaac Brock's grave.
The park marks the site of the Battle of Queenston Heights in
the War of 1812. Queenston Heights was declared a national
historic site of Canada because: - the Battle of Queenston
Heights was fought here when an attempted invasion by American
troops was repulsed by British/Canadian forces early in the War
of 1812, - the importance of Queenston Heights, and the
difficulty of achieving a meaningful historic interpretation at
Lundy's Lane, renders this the main battlefield to be
interpreted in commemorating the War of 1812 in the Niagara
Peninsula. The heritage value of Queenston Heights National
Historic Site of Canada resides in the completeness of the found
forms and spatial inter-relationships of the remaining cultural
landscape of the large area over which th