By Doug Draper
Niagara’s Brock University has launched a website lovers of history and all of us who should know more about our history should treasure on both sides of our Canada-U.S. border.
It is a website featuring more than 1,000 items and 22,000 images from the War of 1812 and it is fitting that a university bearing the name of one of that conflict’s most iconic generals – Isaac Brock for the British side – is showcasing it over an internet site you can access at www.1812history.com.
This website, launched this February 18, “aims to provide a snapshot of the time period in an effort to give a wide-ranging overview of daily social, economic and political lives (of people during the War of 1812),” according to a media release the university circulated on the occasion of the launch. “Items like newspapers, business ledgers, letters, clothing, household objects and articles from the war are included on the site.” Continue reading

