Stories Selected Bibliography



Last Revised June 24, 2020

Ancaster’s Heritage, Ancaster Township Historical Society, Ancaster, 1973, accessed May 12, 2014 at www.ourroots.ca.

Annals of the Forty, Vol. 1, Grimsby Historical Society, 1950.

Thomas Melville Bailey (Editor), Dictionary of Hamilton Biography, Volume 1, W.L. Griffin Limited, 1981.

Battle of Brownstown, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brownstown, accessed July 9, 2015.

Battle of the River Raisin, accessed June 30, 2014 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Raisin_National_Battlefield_Park

David Richard Beasley, From Bloody Beginnings, Richard Beasley’s Upper Canada, Davus Publishing, Simcoe, Ontario, 2008, pages 246, 280, & 289.

Harold S. Bender, New Source Material for the History of the Mennonites in Ontario, Mennonite Quarterly Review 3, Number 1, 1929, pages 45-53.

Pierre Berton, The Invasion of Canada 1812-1813, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1980.  A good history but better books about the war were written later.

Harold S. Bende, New Source Material for the History of the Mennonites in Ontario, Mennonite Quarterly Review 3, Number 1, 1929

William Blagrove, ADM 103/466, Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners, transcriptions from files in Washington on May 9, 1819.

Janet Carnochan, Graves and Inscriptions in the Niagara Peninsula, Butler’s Family Graveyard, at http://www.sandycline.com/history/grave1.html, accessed February 24, 2015.

David B. Clark, Douglas A. Green, & M. Lubell, Billy Green and Balderdash - A Presentation of the Facts, CM Printing, Hamilton, 2011.

Thousands of war loss claims petitions containing lots of under used research material.  The collection contains several indices.  My petitions index is online at

Collections Canada, War of 1812:  Upper Canada Returns, Norminal Rolls and Paylists, RG9, Militia and Defence, Series 1-B-7,
I have transcribed rolls for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd York and 5th Lincoln Militias.  Look for these transcripts on ourontario.ca.

Lt. Col. Thomas Clark, From letters written during the War of 1812-14, men wounded or died since June 26, 1812, www.sandycline.com/history/Lincmilitia.html, accessed 2011.

Hazel A. Corman, An Account of the Battle of Stoney Creek, Papers & Records of the Wentworth Historical Society, Vol. 7, The Griffin & Richmond Co., Ltd., 1916

Linda Corupe, U.E., Upper Canada Justice, Early Assize Court Records of Ontario, Vol. 2, 1810-1818, transcribed and indexed 2008.  A great family history resource for the war years.

Earnest Alexander Cruikshank, Documentary History of the Campaign Upon the Niagara Frontier, Part 1 and 2, Lundy’s Lane Historical Society, Printed at the Tribune Office, Welland, 1896 and 1897, online at www.ourroots.ca.

Ernest Alexander Cruikshank, Documentary History of the Campaign upon the Niagara Frontier, Part 3, Lundy’s Lane Historical Society, printed at the Tribune Office, Welland, 1899, at www.ourroots.ca, accessed on Jan. 16, 2014.

Ernest Alexander Cruikshank, The Documentary History of the Campaign upon the Niagara Frontier, Part 4, Lundy’s Lane Historical Society, printed at the Tribune Office, Welland, 1900, at www.ourroots.ca, accessed Jan. 16, 2014.

Earnest Alexander Cruikshank, The Documentary History of the Campaign upon the Niagara Frontier in the Year 1813 Part II, June to August, Part 6, Lundy’s Lane Historical Society, printed at the Tribune Office, Welland, 1900, www.ourroots.ca, accessed Jan. 16, 2014.

Ernest Alexander Cruikshank, Documentary History of the Campaign upon the Niagara Frontier in 1813, Part III, August to October, Vol. 7, Lundy’s Lane Historical Society, printed at the Tribune Office, Welland, 1905, accessed at www.ourroots.ca, March 24, 2014.

Ernest Alexander Cruikshank, Documentary History of the Campaign Upon the Niagara Frontier in the year 1813, Part IV, Vol. 8, Lundy’s Lane Historical Society, printed at the Tribune Office, Welland, 1907.

Earnest Alexander Cruikshank, Documentary History of the Campaign Upon the Niagara Frontier, 1812-14, Vol. 9, Lundy’s Lane Historical Society, printed at the Tribune Office, Welland, 1908, online at www.ourroots.ca.

Brig. Gen. E.A. Cruikshank, A Memoir of Colonel, the Honorable James Kerby, his Life in Letters, Welland County Historical Papers and Records, Vol. 4, Welland, 1931, pages 10-11, accessed Dec., 2011 at www.ourroots,ca

Earnest Alexander Cruikshank, Records of Niagara:  A Collection of Contemporary Letters and Documents, 1812, Niagara Historical Society, Niagara, 1934.

E.A. Cruickshank, Records of Niagara:  A Collection of Contemporary Letters and Documents, Jan. to July, 1813, Niagara Historical Society, Niagara, 1939, accessed at www.ourroots.ca

Decou House, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCou_House, accessed September 3, 2015.

Dorothy Duncan, Hoping for the Best, Preparing for the Worst, Dundurn, Toronto, 2012.

James E. Elliott, Strange Fatality, The Battle of Stoney Creek, 1813, Robin Brass Studio Inc., 2009.

Richard Feltoe, Redcoated Ploughboys:  The Volunteer Battalion of Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada, 1813-1815, Dundurn Press, 2012.

The Fife and Drum, The Newsletter of The Friends of Fort York and Garrison Common, http://www.fortyork.ca/resources/newsletter-archive.html

Edith G. Firth, The Town of York, 1793-1815, A Collection of Documents of Early Toronto, The Champlain Society for the Government of Ontario, University of Toronto Press, 1962

Gary E. French, Men of Colour, Kaste Books, Stroud, Ontario, 1978.

Dianne Graves, In the Midst of Alarms:  The Untold Story of Women and the War of 1812, Robin Brass Studio Inc., 2007.  Laura Secord was not the only heroine of the war!

Donald E. Graves, Field of Glory, The Battle of Crysler’s Farm, 1813, Robbin Brass Studio, 1999

Donald E. Graves, Merry Hearts Make Light Days, The War of 1812 Journal of Lieutenant John Le Couteur, 104th Foot, Carleton University Press, Ottawa, 1994.

Donald E. Graves, Where Right and Glory Lead! The Battle of Lundy’s Lane, 1814, Robin Brass Studio, Toronto, 2003.

William Gray, Soldiers of the King, The Upper Canada Militia 1812-1815, The Boston Mills Press, Erin, Ontario, 1995.  There were some discrepancies between the name lists in this book and primary militia rolls.  The book did not have sources for each name and discrepancies could not easily be reviewed.

Ernest Green, Lincoln at Bay:  A Sketch of 1814, Global Heritage Press, Milton, Ontario, 2009.


David H. Hemmings, War of 1812, Lincoln Militia, 2012, for the Niagara Historical Society Museum and the Lincoln and Welland Regiment Museum.  The Niagara Historical Society Museum has published other material written by David and other members on their website.  This is an excellent resource on the Niagara Frontier during the war.

Historical Narratives of Early Canada, First Burial in Brock’s Bastion, at http://www.uppercanadahistory.ca/brock/brock8.html, accessed March 3, 2015.

L. Homfray Irving, Honorary Librarian, Officers of the British Forces in Canada during the War of 1812-15, Canadian Military Institute, Welland Tribune Print, 1908, at http://ia600204.us.archive.org/19/items/officersbrit00irviri...
There were some discrepancies between officer lists and those on primary militia rolls.

Journals & Transactions of the Wentworth Historical Society, Vol. 4, The Griffin & Kidner Co., Ltd., 1905.


William Kirby & Lorne Pierce, Annals of Niagara, Macmillan Co. of Canada, Toronto, 1927.

Letters written during the War of 1812-14, Capt. John D. Servos’ Company, 1st Lincoln, Sept. 7, 1812, persons excused or incapacitated, www.sandycline.com/history/Lincmilitia.html, accessed in 2011.

Cheryl MacDonald, Battle of Nanticoke Had Far-Reaching Effects, The Sachem & Glanbrook Gazette, November 11, 2013, accessed online January 21, 2015 at http://www.sachem.ca/opinion/battle-of-nanticoke-had-far-reaching-effects/


Robert Malcomson, Capital in Flames, The American Attack on York, 1813, Robin Brass Studio, Montreal, 2008

Memo Authorizing a Ration of Fuel and Candles to Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, at http://images.ourontario.ca/1812/70297/data?n=4, accessed February 24, 2015.

Capt. Wm. H. Merritt, of the Provincial Light Dragoons, Journal of Events, Principally on the Detroit and Niagara Frontiers, during the War of 1812, The Historical Society, B.N.A., St. Catharines, C.W., 1863.

Betti Michael, Township of Thorold, 1793-1967, Armath Assoc. Ltd., 1967.

Michilimackinac Island, http://www.warof1812.ca/batmac.html, accessed June 30, 2015.

Militia Land Grants, Ontario Archives Microfilm MS693, Reel 140, Vol. 132.

Militia Pension Agent’s Office, York, 18th September, 1816, accessed August 27, 2015, at  http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/1812/big/big_065_orphans_list.aspx

Christine Mosser, York, Upper Canada Minutes of Town Meetings and Lists of Inhabitants, 1793-1823, Metropolitan Toronto Library Board, Toronto, 1984, accessed June 23, 2020 at https://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/229901.pdf

Niagara Historical Society and Museum document, page 5, accessed February 28, 2012 at http://images.ourontario.ca/1812/70175/data?n=371

John Norton and Carl Benn, A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2019.

David A. Owen, The Black as a Soldier – Captain Runchey’s Company, by Niagara Advance Historical Issue, 1981.  This was the only Black company in the Upper Canadian units but Coloured men also served in a number of other militia regiments and provincial units.

Oakland Township:  200 Years, Vol. 4, Part 2, page 1085, accessed September 13, 2015 on Google Books.

Ontario Genealogical Society, Niagara Peninsula Branch, War of 1812 Commemorative Committee, More Than a Mere Matter of Marching: A Bicentennial War of 1812 Project, St. Catherines, Ontario, 2013.

Richard Pierpoint, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pierpoint, accessed Nov. 28, 2013.

Steve Pitt, To Stand and Fight Together, Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2008.


Ely Playter’s Diary, https://twitter.com/ElyPlayter1812, accessed June 7, 2015.

J.H. Pope, Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Halton, Walker & Miles, Toronto, 1877.

Poster of pensioners wounded and disabled while in service, Ontario Archives, Ref. Code F 542, box MU 2192.

Jerry Prager, Laying the Bed, Elora, Ontario, 2014.  This book is about the origins of the underground railway and includes material about the War of 1812.

Marian Press, William Crooks, torontofamilyhistory.org/simcoesgentry/26/william-crooks, accessed Jan. 17, 2012.

Raid on Gananoque, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Gananoque, accessed June 21, 2014.

Captain Samuel Ridout’s order book, Reference RG8-1, Microfilm C-3519, accessed Feb. 9, 2017 at http://data2.archives.ca/e/e435/e010869208.pdf

Thomas Ridout Family Fonds, Microfilm MS537 Reel 1, Ontario Archives, Toronto, Ontario.

H.H. Robertson, Wentworth Historical Society, Volume 4, Hamilton, 1905, pages 9 to 26, online at www.ourroots.ca.

George Sheppard, Plunder, Profit, and Paroles:  A Social History of the War of 1812 in Upper Canada, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1994.  This book was very enlightening about the war in Upper Canada.

Benjamin Smith’s Diary, Benjamin Smith Fonds F582, Ontario Archives, Toronto, Ontario.  Daily one-line reports about what was happening on his farm, in Ancaster Township, and on the Niagara Frontier before, during, and after the war.  Unfortunately, the ink had faded out on some pages.

Glen Smith, The Niagara Advance Historical Issue, First Lincoln Artillery Met Challenge of 1812, 1985.

Rainham Builders, Martin Fite, http://thecommonlife.com.au/rainham/TNG/getperson.php?personID=I00476&tree=1, accessed February 25, 2015.


Alan Taylor, The Civil War of 1812, American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies, Penguin Random House, 2011.  This is the best recent book about the whole war.

T. Roy Woodhouse, The History of the Town of Dundas, Part 1, Dundas Historical Society, Dundas, Ontario, 1965, accessed at www.ourroots.ca.

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