Fort St. Joseph is a former British out post on the southmost side of St. Joseph island in Ontario, Canada on Lake Huron.The Fort consisted of a block house(a reinforced concrete shelter), powder magazine

(a building that stores gunpowder safely in wooden barrels), Bakery building(a bakery)and a Indian council house(where Indians made decisions).Fort St. Joseph was used as staging ground in the first attack in the war of 1812.On the morning of April 27th,1812,Joseph Sheperd would have awakened to find himself in a two story military blockhouse near what is now the intersection of parliament and fort streets.

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