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4 unusual facts about Clonard Keating


Clonard Keating

In Halifax, on Arbor Day, 8 May 1899, the teachers and pupils of Morris Street School, Keatings alma-mater, planted a tree in his memory in the Halifax Public Gardens.

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When it came time to return to Lafagu, on October 9, Keating went with 14 of his troops to the island village of Hela, near Yelwa, for additional canoes.

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Keating had 22 men from which to command a sixty mile district from Lafagu, Nigeria to Rofia and Illah.

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Keating’s body was eventually recovered.and buried in the new British fort at Yelwa, a half mile away from Hela.



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