The Village of Queenston (Latitude 43°10'N Longitude 79°03'W) is located 5km north of Niagara Falls, Ontario in the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Queenston was first settled in the 1770's by United Empire Loyalist refugees and emigrees from the United States. British, Mohawk and Canadian colonial troops defeated an American invasion force here in the Battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812. British Major-General Sir Isaac Brock was killed in the battle; the victory and his death are commemorated by a large stone monument, on the south edge of the village. Also nearby is a smaller monument to Brock's gray horse Alfred. The village was the home of Laura Secord, a Canadian heroine of the 1812 war.
Bluffs of the Niagara River gorge overlooking the river and Queenston at its N terminus beside Robt Moses Pkwy.
Numerous pre-1925 stations for the Niagara river area of Ontario are show by Dugal (in Argus, et al., 1987), where it grows in "Dry, sandy woods and thickets." Listed as rare in the Niagara Frontier Region by Zander and Pierce (1979).
Ontario: Ontario: Queen Victoria Park, Cameron, 1890 (NFO); Niagara Glen, Hamilton, July 15, 1939 (NFO); Dufferin Islands, Small patch in open, weedy thickets on island, outer, margin, with Alliaria officinalis, Ranunculus abortivus, Veronica.
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