It’s 19 degrees with a brisk wind blowing off Lake Erie as the men ... But ignorance of the War of 1812 lightens his role as Lacroix Company leader. “I made up some of the orders today ...

The first walk across Lake Erie from Erie to Canada was reported to be in 1912, when a 19-year-old North East man crossed the frozen lake. "It had never been done before," the Erie Times-News said ...