http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/ a forum for discussion of all aspects of Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:20:47 GMT tom4141fournier http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41185 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41185 Hi John Very nice pictures ....thank you so much for posting as well carrying on your little investigation. Very cool! Cheers! Tom Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:27:50 GMT Spencer's Mercantile http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41184 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41184 Please join us at Spencer's Mercantile for our annual Open House and Sale on Saturday, November 21, 2009, from 10 am to 5 pm. We're celebrating 16 years in Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:42:30 GMT Dave Robinson http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41183 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41183 Note further that Simcoe's military road, "Yonge Street", initially ran from York to a terminus on the Holland River. On the earliest map I have seen (ca1803 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:13:31 GMT kathryn.schwenger41@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41182 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41182 Mary Beacock Fryer wrote a very good biography called "Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe 1762-1850: A Biography", published 1989 by Dundurn Press, based extensively on Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:55:42 GMT kathryn.schwenger41@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41181 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41181 Yes, the information was accurate. There is an historical plaque to Richard Pierpoint in St. Catharines - he did serve in the War of 1812. Here is a link to Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:30:20 GMT petemonahan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41180 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41180 Squire John For your further edification: Simcoe County, whose lower border begins about 35 miles north of Toronto, contains Lake Simcoe - a small lake by Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:19:31 GMT JOHN GREIG http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41179 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41179 I have just added six photos of the church to the group photo section. The album is entitled "All Saints, Aldwincle, Northamptonshire". John   [Non-text Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:16:10 GMT petemonahan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41178 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41178 Further to the question of free blacks in Upper Canada: There was one 'line' on the Underground Railroad which ran as far north as Collingwood, on Lake Huron. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:34:04 GMT JOHN GREIG http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41177 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41177 Elizabeth Posthuma Gwillim.    As many of you know I live in rural Northamptonshire in England and follow the threads of the War of 1812 Yahoo Group with Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:21:17 GMT Ian Gardner http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41176 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41176 Hi John, There was a militia unit of black citizens under the command of Robert Runchey. Here?s a link to an Adobe Acrobat file that gives a good overview of Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:58:48 GMT ronaldjdale@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41175 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41175 The 1793 Upper Canadian legislation against the increase in slavery in Upper Canada decreed that no slaves could be imported to Upper Canada (eg a freedom Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:36:12 GMT John Matthew IV http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41174 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41174 I attended the 1812 Great Canadian Victory Party at St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto this weekend. It was a theatric presentation that had many characters from the Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:18:01 GMT Sanford http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41173 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41173 I'm a new member of this group and have been lurking for a short while. I have been a rev war reenactor for about 12 years in New England but recently moved Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:47:57 GMT larrylozon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41172 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41172 ============================== TO: "CROWN FORCES NORTH AMERICA" Unit Commanders, Please Inform your members ============================== I am requested to Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:46:50 GMT MasterAtArms http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41171 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOf1812/message/41171 Worthy of note: The town of Amherstburg is also among the small number of Canadian communities that annually recognize the War of 1812 during remembrance Day