Resources

Heritage Matters

Explore the Trust’s Heritage Matters e-magazine to learn more about Ontario’s past. Specifically, check out the following articles related to the War of 1812:

• Battlefield House Museum and Park – A pioneer in the history of preservation
• Choosing sides: French presence on the Detroit frontier during the War of 1812
• Fighting for freedom
• Finding our place
• Forgotten by her country
• Keeping the peace: Quakers and the War of 1812 in Upper Canada
• Perspectives on the War of 1812
• Postcards from the battlefield
• Resources: Perspectives on the War of 1812
• The heritage of Ontario’s forts
• Upper Canada’s first parliament buildings: A place of hopes and dreams

Explore the Trust’s collections database for artifacts connected to the War of 1812.

External resources:

Here are several other sources that you could explore to learn more about the War of 1812 and the people who lived – and fought – through it:

• Archives of Ontario: The War of 1812 online exhibit
• CBC War of Independence | Canada: The Story of Us, Episode 3
• Library and Archives Canada: The War of 1812
• Niagara 1812 Legacy Council Archives: Looking at Niagara’s 1812 Legacy
• Canadian War Museum: 1812 Virtual Exhibition