My 2020 Blogging from A to Z Challenge revisits my best posts from the 2014 to 2019 Challenges.
Lake Ontario was a distant vista when I spent a year at college in Toronto. But it proved a crucial area in the War of 1812 for Gregory Wendell. The author of the diary in ‘Seeking A Knife’, Book 3 of my Snowdon Shadows series, is an Royal Navy officer who sees action on Lake Ontario, prior to meeting a Choctaw girl.
How much do you know about the War of 1812? When I studied British history in the UK, it was a footnote to the Napoleonic Wars. But now I’m learning, initiated by spending a few years in Canada. So far, everyone learnt little about the War at school.
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Ontario is a place I would love to see/experience for myself. Which sadly is most unlikely to happen.
Stay well, stay safe.
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Although, I lived in Ontario (Toronto) for a year, I suspect the nearest I’ll get is Ontario, Idaho. The nearest part of Canada is over the northern Idaho border – into Alberta. We will have to dream together, EC.
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Being in Montreal, we lived near a few sites from the War of 1812, so I guess we learned about it in school a bit more than most do. That said, I don’t remember much!
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I wasn’t aware of the War so much when I went to college north of Montreal – in the Laurentians. I thought you were now in Europe, Deniz. Are you ex-pat Quebecois? And which part of Montreal? I used to use Westmount Library once a week for two years.
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Oh, that’s close to me! I love that library! But yes, we’ve been in Switzerland for six years now. I miss real bagels!
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I miss so much about Canada & Quebec – wish at times I was back. BTW my college was in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts and I learnt to ski in the Laurentians – a lifetime ago.
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