Port Talbot was the name of a community located west of Port Stanley

Port Stanley, Ontario

Port Stanley is a community in the Municipality of Central Elgin, Ontario, Elgin County, located on the north shore of Lake Erie at the mouth of Kettle Creek.-History:...

 in Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

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 where Talbot Creek flows into Lake Erie

Lake Erie

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. The village was the original commercial nucleus for the settlement which developed on 5,000 acres (20 km²) of land granted to Thomas Talbot

Thomas Talbot (Upper Canada)

Colonel Thomas Talbot was born at Malahide Castle in Ireland near Dublin He was the fourth son of Richard Talbot and his wife Margaret Talbot, 1st Baroness Talbot of Malahide...

 in 1800 by the Crown along the northwestern shore of Lake Erie

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. The settlement was one of the most prosperous of its time in Upper Canada

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, noted for its good roads, with Talbot keeping out land speculators and securing hard-working settlers. Talbot's authoritarian control of the settlers led to conflicts with the Executive Council of Upper Canada

Executive Council of Upper Canada

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 and a reduction in his powers.

As a result of invading American forces during the War of 1812

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, the community was burned in 1814 in a series of raids and was never rebuilt.

The site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1923.