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Battle
of the Shipbuilders: The War of 1812
With its beginning in an obscure quarrel
over British press-ganging of American
sailors, and its ending with a treaty
that gave both sides what they started
with, the War of 1812 has been judged
by some historians as fruitless, futile,
and unfortunate. For some of those
who fought it - troops, militia men
and Six Nations Warriors at Queenston
Heights and Lundy's Lane and naval
forces on Lake Erie - it was a bloody
and terrifying battle. For others,
such as the American Isaac Chauncey
and his British arch-rival, James
Lucas Yeo, it was an ever-escalating
game of maritime one-upmanship.
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Lake
Ontario
Lake
of the Woods
Great
Slave Lake
Bras
d’Or Lake
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The
Toronto Islands: Shaped by a Storm
Many of the picnickers, cyclists,
swimmers and boardwalk strollers
who visit the Toronto Islands,
just a short ferry ride from downtown
Toronto, would be surprised to
learn that today's configuration
of recreational parklands bears
little resemblance to the series
of sandbars, marshes and ponds
that once jutted out from the
city's mainland.
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Claiming
the Bounty
A Brief History of Boundary Disputes:
The history of the Lake of the
Woods from the late 1600’s
until the end of the 1800’s
concerns the fur-trading empire
rivalry, the Canada-U.S. boundary
decision, the fight over Ontario-Manitoba
jurisdiction and a settlement
with the First Nations tribes
called Treaty Number 3 –
a timeline of compromise, intimidation
and political change.
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Great
Explorers of Great Slave Lake
Who was the first European to
see Great Slave Lake? Was it the
Hudson Bay Company’s designated
explorer, Samuel Hearne? Was it
Gregory, MacLeod and Company’s
trading envoy Laurent Leroux,
or the Northwest Company’s
Cuthbert Grant? Was it Peter Pond,
the bellicose and belligerent,
but highly persistent veteran
fur trader who first placed the
lake on a map?
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Alexander Graham Bell’s
Beloved Baddeck
While the cities of Boston, Massachusetts,
Washington, D.C., and Brantford,
Ontario can all lay claim to hosting
the brilliant mind of inventor
Alexander Graham Bell, it is the
Bras d’Or Lakes village
of Baddeck, Nova Scotia that truly
captured his heart. It is in Baddeck
that Bell relaxed, retired, and
found his final resting place,
leaving behind a spirit of joyful
discovery and the inspiration
of a life well lived.
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