in Toronto. The monument's dedication was led by Canadian Member of Parliament Sir James David Edgar. In the 1930s a Memorial Arch was placed at the end of the Honeymoon Bridge in Niagara Falls which commemorated the arrival of United Empire Loyalists and those that participated in the Upper Canada Rebellion, included reliefs of Captains Lount and Matthews designed by Emanuel Hahn. These reliefs are now held by the Mackenzie House. In 1992 the town of Pickering unveiled a plaque for Captain Matthews which read as follows: "Peter Matthews farmed the lands immediately northeast of here in the early nineteenth century. On December 2, 1837, neighbours asked him to lead men from the area to join an uprising against the government in Toronto planned by William Lyon Mackenzie. Matthews supported democratic reforms, was popular in his community, and had served in the War of 1812. He agreed to the request and played a leading role in the confused events of the Rebellion of 1837. When the rebellion failed, Matthews was captured by government militia. Authorities decided to make an example of Matthews and another prominent rebel, Samuel Lount. Convicted of treason and publicly hanged they became martyrs of the rebellion whose memory would be invoked by reformers for generations to come." In 2012, as part of the 175th anniversary of the executions of Matthews and Lount, a Lount and Matthews Commemoration Committee was formed to raise public awareness. Captain Matthews had eight children. His son Hiram, who marched with him in the rebellion and was also arrested, was pardoned and remained in Canada. His other son, Thomas Matthews, married a Margaret Spencer and migrated to the United States, settling in Worth Township, Michigan. Their farm, believed to have been designed based on Matthews' farm in Pickering, was granted landmark status by the US National Register of Historic Places. References 1789 births 1838 deaths Pre-Confederation Ontario people Upper Canada Rebellion people Executed Canadian people People executed for treason against the United Kingdom People executed by British North America by hanging People executed by Upper Canada People from Pickering, Ontario Canadian people of Dutch descent Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)