At Carillon, you can visit the former British army barracks built to house soldiers during the 1837 Lower Canada rebellion. Nearby is the Carillon Canal, built in 1833 to facilitate military barges traveling up and down the Ottawa River.
In the late1800s, Oka hosted tens of thousands of pilgrims looking for the Way of the Cross, a series of chapels and oratories constructed by the Sulpicians to teach indigenous converts the stages of the Passion of Christ.
On December 16, 1837, during the Battle of the Patriots, the British Army led by the General John Colborne, many houses, as well as the church and the rectory of Saint-Benoît were burned.
