There is a nice marker and plaque at the site and someone even left flowers not long ago. It looks as if another plaque has been stripped from a second marker leaving its purpose a mystery although the etched name Tecumseh can just be made out. Signs bearing "Tecumseh Parkway" line the short roadway next to the monument. I encountered a few references to the Parkway while researching the location of the battlefield but could find few details about it. Still can't. Its organizers seem to have fully embraced modern technology to the point that the only map available is part of a smart phone app described here. That's not entirely a bad idea but it is of no use to a dumb Yank whose smart phone has no service in Canada. The signs were well done and offered quite a bit of information on the battle with one side in English and the other French. I wondered if this short bit of pavement, seen almost entirely in the second photo, was the Tecumseh Parkway.

Apparently I took no pictures of the Parkway sign but I did now have reason to believe that there was more to the Tecumseh Parkway than a single set of signs on a cul-de-sac. I imagine I could have learned all about the parkway at the Fairfield Museum but it was closed. I drove on a few more miles without finding another Parkway sign so turned back toward Chatham.. Although it certainly was not marked as such, Fairfield seemed to me to be a reasonable place for the Parkway to end

Some four miles before Chatham, I spotted another Tecumseh Parkway informational sign. A Canadian couple was already parked nearby and out reading the sign.

"Did you start at the other end?" the man asked.

"Maybe", I answered and explained that I really didn't know what this Tecumseh Parkway was.

The couple had driven by the signs several times without stopping and had decided today would be the day to read them all. The signs essentially marked the path that the various combatants followed on their way to the big battle. That was the Tecumseh Parkway. The couple told me it began near a place called Jeannettes Creek and they described a couple of the other stops. That was certainly helpful.

Canadians are somewhat proud of the capture and actually somewhat proud of their performance in the entire war. As with most wars, the War of 1812 had no real winners. At war's end, the borders between the US and British territories were pretty much where they had been at its beginning. But Canada, with the help of American bungling, turned back every attempt of the US to invade Canada which certainly entitles them to think like winners. The losers, of course were the Native Americans. When the people from Europe stopped fighting each other, the natives had lost lives, land, and hope.