The following excerpt is from the October 22, 2013 Vancouver Sun website
Canada – Travellers interested in military history usually think of Europe as the place to visit battlefields, but Canada has its fair share of them and as this year marks the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, there is no better time to visit some of them.
The World Wars of last century are recent enough that they loom large in our memories, but it’s no understatement to say that the War of
1812 is every bit as important in Canada’s history as those great conflicts. In fact, if the outcome had been different there would probably be no country called Canada.
