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	Martello tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The third tower in Quebec was demolished in the 1900s after being used as a residence, and the fourth surviving Martello Tower in Quebec is located on the North side of the Upper City.
		Two of Kingston's towers, Murney Tower and the tower at Point Frederick (at the Royal Military College of Canada) are maintained as museums which are open during the summer.
		The last Martello tower built in the British Empire is said to be that at Fort Denison, a small island in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, for the protection of Sydney against possible attack by the Russians during the Crimean War of the 1850s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martello_tower (927 words)

	MURNEY TOWER COUNTERSCARP WALL REPAIRS
		Murney Tower, built in 1846, is one of four historic Martello Towers in Kingston.
		The tower is surrounded by a moat supported by a counterscarp wall.
		Regular and microfine cement based grouts were used in the project to install a grout curtain surrounding the tower.
	www.ecogrout.com /casehistory/3-fa78.html (151 words)

	Martello tower -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The construction of Martello towers abroad continued until as late as the (The decade from 1860 to 1869) 1860s, but was discontinued after it became clear that they could not withstand rifled artillery weapons.
		One Martello tower, in (A parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius) Mauritius, nearby the La Preneuse public beach in Tamarin, has been restored by the Friends of the Environment and operates as a museum open for visitors.
		Carleton Martello Tower, overlooking the harbour of (Click link for more info and facts about Saint John, New Brunswick) Saint John, New Brunswick, is now a museum and National Historic Site.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Martello_tower.htm (542 words)

	Martello tower
		Martello towers were exported to many colonies of the British Empire, including South Africa (at Simon's Town Naval base near Cape Town), America, Canada, Minorca, the Channel Islands and Ireland.
		No less than six were built at Kingston, Ontario, as part of the fortifications at Fort Henry, one of which, Murney Tower is now a museum.
		The last Martello tower built in the British Empire is said to be that at Fort Dennison, a small island in Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, for the protection of Sydney against possible attack by the Russians during the Crimean War of the 1850s.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Martello_tower (745 words)

	Kingston, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the War of 1812, Kingston was the base for the Lake Ontario division of the Great Lakes British naval fleet and engaged in a vigorous arms race with the American fleet based at Sackett's Harbor, New York for control of Lake Ontario.
		After the war, Britain built Fort Henry and a series of distinctive Martello towers to guard the entrance to the Rideau Canal (the fort is still standing and is a popular tourist destination).
		Kingston was one of the contenders for the capital of the united Canadas before Confederation, but after a brief stint as the capital from 1841 to 1844, it lost out to an alternating location of Montreal and Toronto, and then later to Ottawa where it has resided since.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingston,_Ontario (1334 words)

	History - Museum of the Royal Military College of Canada
		As a result it was decided to increase Kingston's defences and four stand alone redoubts (or Martello Towers) along with two ditch towers at Fort Henry were built between 1846 and 1848.
		The four towers were Murney Tower (located on Murney Point), Victoria or Shoal Tower (located in the water in front of the Market Battery and City Hall), Fort Frederick Tower and Cathcart or Cedar Island Tower.
		The other Kingston towers are Cedar Island Tower, Shoal Tower, Murney Tower and the two ditch towers at Fort Henry.
	www.rmc.ca /other/museum/history_e.html (1148 words)

	boldts.net - Kingston - Martello Towers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The walls of these towers are thinner on the side of the fort to make it easier to destroy the towers in case they fall to the invaders.
		The other four larger towers were built from 1846 to 1848 during a period of heightened border tensions with the United States and were the most complex of the Martello Towers.
		Two of the towers, Murney Tower and Fort Frederick, are open to the public and contain museums.
	www.boldts.net /Kingston4.shtml (296 words)

	Ontario Forts - page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Two small Martello towers were built on either side of flanking ditches in 1846.
		A Martello Tower was later planned for this location, but it was never built.
		Murney and Fort Frederick (mentioned above) plus Victoria Tower (in Flora MacDonald Marina) and Cathcart Redoubt (near Fort Henry), also known as Shoal Tower and Cedar Island Tower respectively.
	www.geocities.com /naforts/on3.html (1115 words)

	Kingston Historical Society - Members' Party in the Murney Tower
		Over 80 years ago, the members of the Kingston Historical Society decided that Kingston was in need of a military museum to highlight the significance of this city to the defence of British North America in the 19th century.
		Maurice Smith, President of the Kingston Historical Society, proposes a toast in honour of the 80th anniversary of the Murney Tower.
		Warren Everett from the Murney Tower Committee holds a prototype of the new souvenir model.
	www.heritagekingston.org /events/murney-party.html (234 words)

	kingston2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Oregon Crisis between Britain and the USA caused a re-evaluation of the cities defences and a number of circular towers were built around the city.
		The Fort Frederick Martello Tower that stands on the grounds of the Royal Military College is also a museum.
		Well fortified or not, Canada's rulers at the time decided that Kingston was just a little too close to the United States for comfort and the seat of government was moved to Montreal in 1844.
	www.adventurepluspublishing.com /kingston2.htm (1067 words)

	Kingston Forts
		Two towers were later added to the plan, to be built at Point Frederick (1847) and at the Market Shoal (Victoria Tower) (1847), due to military tensions with the United States over the Oregon Crisis.
		The Cedar Island Tower and the Shoal Tower also still exist, but are not open for visitation.
		The Victoria (Shoal) Martello Tower (1846 - 1870?) on approach from the ferry.
	www.geocities.com /lakeforts/Kingston.html (794 words)

	Edward Browne's Travels: Part I
		In the great Church the Organs, the Tower, and the Monument of De wit, upon the Bridge the Statue of Erasmus, as also the house where he was born, and the Pleasure boats of the States are worth the seeing.
		The Turkish Ornament to the Tower of their Mosques, is three Balls one above another, and an half Moon over them, but they are less by far, at least such as I have seen: and by relation from Eye-witnesses, the largest of the three noble gilded Balls at Morocco are inferiour to this.
		Particularly at Colen, in the white Tower, at the North end of Town, near the Rhine; where it is reported, that such Youths who were not otherwise to be reclaimed, were in a barbarous manner shut up in the white Tower.
	penelope.uchicago.edu /travels/travels1.html (7610 words)

	IN THE DARK OF KINGSTON
		I paused for a moment to admire the squattly fortified "Murney Tower", one of four Martello Towers constucted in the 1840s to defend Kingston from her southern neighbour during the tense days of the Oregon Crisis.
		According to the story, no explanation was ever given for this strange oversight, for the architect took his own life on the ship back to England.
		Then there was the persistent rumour of hidden passages connecting the City Hall with Shoal Tower in Confederation Basin, and the various weird tales concerning Deadman Bay...
	www.pulpanddagger.com /pulpmag/dark/dark2.html (1327 words)

	Ford
		A remailer for persons interested in commercial/governmental tower work from erection to antenna installation to maintenance. This is not a group for amateur radio discussions as another list "Tower-talk" already exists for that purpose.
		The Ponteland Pele Tower Working Group was formed with the aim of securing the historic future of the Ponteland Vicar's Pele Tower, situated in the village of Ponteland, about eight miles north of Newcastle Upon Tyne.
		Devils Tower is a great place to have your own close encounter with nature. This page provides information on the Tower and surrounding areas.
	www.fordaf.com /fordescapestruttower (948 words)

	Petermilliken.org Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Murney Tower is an important national historic site in Kingston and an important historic treasure that the Government of Canada is committed to preserving," said Minister Anderson.
		Murney Tower, built in 1846, was one of four Martello towers constructed in Kingston in the wake of a diplomatic crisis between the United States and the United Kingdom.
		Murney Tower is part of the family of national historic sites of Canada, which connect the roots of our past to the promises of our future and Canadians to each other.
	www.petermilliken.org /release%20current/03-12-03e.htm (338 words)

	July 2004
		Murney Tower, a national historic site, was built in 1846 as part of the defense fortifications of Kingston but it was never used in that capacity.
		By the time the tower was finished, the threat had gone away.
		There are 4 such martello towers in that area that were considered impregnable during their time.
	luandlarry.mystarband.net /2004/july_2004.htm (1998 words)

	Murney Tower Museum - Travel Guide
		The most impressive of four such towers built during the Oregon Crisis of 1846-47 to defend the city's dockyards against an anticipated US attack, this one holds incidental military memorabilia including old weapons, uniforms and re-created nineteenth-century living quarters.
		The design of the tower, built as a combined barracks, battery and storehouse, was copied from a Corsican tower (at Martello Point) which had proved particularly troublesome to the British navy.
		Incidentally, on Christmas Day 1885, members of the Royal Canadian Rifles regiment left the tower equipped with their field hockey sticks and a lacrosse ball, skidding round the frozen lake and thereby inventing the sport that has become a national passion.
	travel-guide.traveliseek.com /murney-tower-museum_avl_li29989.html (227 words)

	Chapter 9 - Kingston
		The waitor, whose name was Peter and we found later was a Leaf fan, came by and told us what the specialties of the house were - prime rib steak, salmon steak, swordfish and several Italian dishes.
		We decided to continue in the military mode of the morning and visited a sister museum of Fort Frederick - the Murney Tower Museum.
		During the 1800s, before the United and States and Canada declaired peace among the two great nations, several buildings were built to protect the small village of Kingston from a possible attack by the Americans.
	www.angelfire.com /on2/overtime/chapter9.html (1589 words)

	Spring 1996 - Traveller's Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Strongly recommended for inclusion on a sightseeing excursion is City Hall, an edifice constructed of limestone, whose impressive dimensions give the onlooker an idea of the city's commercial and political importance during the middle of the last century.
		Equally recommended is a stop at the distinctive Murney Martello Tower, standing close to Lake Ontario, one of the few such towers surviving in Canada.
		Built in 1846 to defend Kingston from the threat of American military incursions, it is a circular defence structure that serves as a small museum, one of more than a dozen museums operated for the benefit of the travelling public in and near the town.
	www.traveltrends.com /traveltrends/ezine/96spr-p5.html (1953 words)

	Tour Fort Henry - Kingston, Ontario, Canada
		The similar tower directly in front of you, on Cedar Island, is one of the four Martello towers that protect the Kingston waterfront.
		In the original plan for the defense of the three waterways, six fortresses were to be deployed along the shores of Lake Ontario, the Cataraqui, and the St Lawrence Rivers, with Martello towers spaced at half-mile intervals between them.
		The four towers existing today are Cathcart Redoubt (on Cedar Island), Fort Frederick (at the Royal Military College), Victoria or Shoal Tower (at the Kingston marina) and Murney Tower (about one kilometre to the west of Shoal Tower).
	www.parks.on.ca /fort/tour21.htm (376 words)

	elevator - tower elevator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The goal is to build a tower of naked people by posing and stacking the figures without causing the tower to fall over.
		Dedicated newsgroup for tower professionals who erect and maintain the tallest structures on the planet: cellular, broadcast, and radio towers.
		Tower construction to include co-location installations, 3rd generation upgrades, and tower inspections and maintenance services.
	www.elevatorhub.com /towerelevator (1857 words)

	IN THE DARK OF KINGSTON
		If my story has a purpose, it is to convince the soldiers presently fighting that titanic thing in Kingston to turn their attentions to the destruction of a still greater threat, a peril to be found in the hanging tower.
		For, what I had seen in that tower, in my flashlight's beam, were runes in the style found on the ancient Kingston Stone, but printed high up on that pulsing squamous surface.
		And, in the tower, is the means -- the vehicle -- by which they will soon do so.
	www.pulpanddagger.com /pulpmag/dark/dark7.html (1314 words)

	Murney Tower
		A Martello Tower in Kingston, Ontario Canada dating back to 1846.
		Built (along with Cathcart Tower on Cedar Island) during the Oregon Crisis to supplement the fortifications of Fort Henry, Ontario, Murney Tower is a National Historic Site and a Museum.
		The article about Murney Tower contains information related to Murney Tower.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Murney_Tower (90 words)

	Kingston Historical Society - Doors Open at Murney Tower
		This year Kingston had 24 sites participating and one of the main attractions from the outset has been Murney Tower.
		Each year over 600 visitors create a standing room only scene at the tower during this one-day celebration.
		Although most visitors are local citizens this year we had visitors from New York State who traveled to Kingston just to see behind the doors.
	www.heritagekingston.org /wok/lime-murney-doors.html (343 words)

	Canadian Cities of Romance
		The system of Martello towers which guard the harbour and city are patterned after those of the 16th Century in Europe and were begun nearly three decades after the block houses.
		So the Murney Tower in Macdonald Park, where, amid large trees and facing the lake is a statue to that great son of Kingston, Sir John A. Macdonald.
		The tower and carved stone doorway are among the most perfect examples of Norman architecture on the continent.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/hale-katherine/romance/romance.html (20840 words)

	Frank R. Pyatt - Kingston - Queen's University - Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Murney Tower Museum in Kingston on the shore of Lake Ontario.
		Period soldier uniforms outside of the Murney Tower Museum.
		The Murney Tower as it appears from Lake Ontario.
	www.frpyatt.com /kingpic.htm (202 words)

	The Parish Register of Kingston 1785-1811 - PART 2
		Edward Murney, M.P.P., was a son of the Captain.
		Mournay, Emily Rosamond-D. of Henry Mournay (Murney); Catharine Mournay (Murney); Sp.-Samuel Hatt,* Eliza Smith; Oct 20th.
		Murney, Richard Frend-S. of Henry Murney, Catharine Murney; Sp.-Wm Frend, Capn John Cummings (Cumming?); Mary Cumming; 11th June.
	my.tbaytel.net /bmartin/kingstn2.htm (18551 words)

	Wakeboarding - Skylon Wakeboard Tower
		Full service hotel next door to the Skylon Tower. Choice of rooms and special packages. Amenities include fine dining, sauna, whirlpool, and indoor and outdoor pools.
		Specializes in tower erection, maintenance, antenna installation, build to suit, and turn key tower projects.
		Located at the gate to Devil's Tower and providing fuel and food services for guests to the park.
	www.thewakeboarddirectory.com /skylonwakeboardtower (459 words)

	Friends of the Rideau - Rideau Reflections Newsletter - Summer 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Kingston military fortifications include Fort Henry and the Kingston Martello towers (Fort Frederick Tower, Shoal Tower, Cathcart Tower and Murney Tower).
		Margaret is holding a special retelling of his story on 5th May to raise funds for the lovely church which is in great need of restoration.
		The church tower and organ need £73,000 to do the work necessary to ensure further generations can enjoy the peaceful setting that is now John By`s resting place.
	www.rideaufriends.com /reflections-summer2005.html (2636 words)

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