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 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.
Collections Canada, War of 1812, Board of Claims and Losses,
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/microform-digitization/006003-110.02-e.php?&q2=33&interval=50&sk=0&&PHPSESSID=nf5gb8qjdi09u45qfhi78sl726
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.
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.
Steve
Pitt, To Stand and Fight Together,
Dundurn Press, Toronto, 2008.
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.
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.
Susquhanna Loyalists, accessed September 8, 2015 at https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SusquehannaLoyalists/conversations/messages/499
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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