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For 200 years, fortifications at Fort Malden have witnessed and played a major role in the struggles which helped forge a new nation out of the North American wilderness. An army garrison, British Indian Department post, dockyard for the Upper Great Lakes and the meeting place for Chief Tecumseh and British General Brock - the fort has been all these. Website has brief history and visitor information for this historic site located at the mouth of the Detroit River in the town of Amherstburg, Ontario.

History of Fort Malden in Amherstburg, Ontario includes description of original fort established here in 1796. Called Fort Amherstburg, it was the centre of British operations during the War of 1812. Destroyed, then rebuilt again, it was revitalized during the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1838-39. In 1921 the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada recognized Fort Malden as being of national historic significance.