Harper's conservative government has invested millions in memorial activities and other War of 1812 paraphernalia ... to the suffering inhabitants of Upper Canada. Over the weekend, there ...

Ontario, then known as Upper Canada, and now the largest province ... “If you’re from British Columbia, the War of 1812 means almost nothing,” says Fort York’s historian Richard Gerrard.

Monday marks the 200th anniversary of the start of the War of 1812. Even though it's a conflict that inspired our national anthem and in which the British burned down the White House, the war ...

Hobbyists re-enacting a 211-year-old War of 1812 battle nearLondon, Ont., say a lot can be learned from the last time Canada had its 'elbows up' against American annexation.

“British Upper Canada was made up of North American settlers ... on with suspicion by those who viewed their loyalist roots as pure and British.” The War of 1812 did confirm the independence of the ...

shifted several times during the War of 1812, because of its important location on the Niagara River at Lake Erie (across the river from Buffalo). It was the site of Upper Canada's bloodiest ...

Frontier inhabitants were eager to strike at the British in Canada because they suspected ... aside by a wave of American settlers. The War of 1812 produced its own Paul Revere, except this ...

Brock was glad enough that the deepest month of winter was over in the little town of York in 1812. Still, he foresaw, as if ordained by fate, where time’s passage was leading. Report an error ...

The War of 1812 in Michigan would decide who controlled ... OF FOOT UNDER THE COMMAND OF COLONEL HENRY PROCTOR, CAMPED IN UPPER CANADA, NOT KNOWING THAT THEIR ROLE AS SOVEREIGN POLICEMEN WOULD ...

The chapter of that conflict that occurred in North America was between the United States, France's ally, and Canada, and is known in these parts as the War of 1812. The Desk will permit a brief ...

American president James Madison launched the War of 1812 on June 19 under circumstances ... leaving only 1,800 Redcoats to defend the vast frontier of Upper Canada and its 80,000 inhabitants.