Interventions to Protect
Belle-Vue
Builder: Robert Reynolds, 1816-1819.
National Historic Site, 1959, Designated under the Ontario Heritage Act 1982.
National Trust for Canada Top 10 Endangered Places, 2009
Robert Reynolds was Commissary to the British garrison at Fort Malden, after he returned from serving in the War of 1812. His sister Catherine’s landscape paintings are an invaluable record of early 19th-century life in Upper Canada. At risk of demolition by neglect and repeatedly vandalized, the Town of Amherstburg bought the house in 2016 and members of Belle Vue Conservancy have raised more than $305,000 toward their $1 million fundraising goal.
December 2017, Terry and Susan Whelan presented Belle Vue House with a $20,000 donation in memory of their late parents, Elizabeth and Eugene Whelan (Federal Minister of Agriculture, 1972-1984).
2018, $100,000 funding from Parks Canada National Cost-Sharing Programme for Heritage Places for restoration of the wood shingle and copper roof.
October 2018, nominated for ACO's Margaret and Nicholas Hill Cultural Heritage Landscape Award.