The year without a summer In the spring of 1815, things were looking up for Canada. Local Canadian militia, along with British forces and their Indigenous allies, had just thwarted an American ...

The War of 1812 is one of our forgotten wars, skimmed over in school lessons and rarely the subject of movies. To the British ...

Straddling the border between Canada and the US, Lake Ontario has long served as a model for the harmonious management of a ...

And with Lake ... by Lake Ontario and began establishing a new community back in 1801. This area became known for its valuable potash production and was named Sackets Harbor. But in 1812, when ...

It’s 19 degrees with a brisk wind blowing off Lake Erie as the men of Lacroix ... lot of one of the bloodiest battlefields of the War of 1812. On this ground, hundreds of U.S. soldiers died ...

The Battle of Crysler’s Farm Monument was first erected in 1895, along with a twin monument commemorating the Battle of ...

The swift American victory in the War of 1812 had long-term repercussions ... Society about the encounter fought on the Ontario side of Lake Erie. Shawnee chief Tecumseh, who bravely led ...

Daniel Dobbins and Jesse Elliott, key figures in the War of 1812, apparently crossed the frozen lake in the winter of 1813-14. The first walk across Lake Erie from Erie to Canada was reported to ...

Niagara-on-the-Lake a ‘cradle of Loyalist settlement’ during American Revolution ...

Smyth decided the main deposit might be under the lake itself. In 1930, Julian G. Cross, an Ontario prospector ... insurance for the United Nations’ war effort. Part came from stock sales ...

At this time, 211 years ago, our area was on the frontlines of the United States’ second conflict with Great Britain, which would come to be known as the War of 1812 ... on-the-Lake, by American ...