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Home | Setting the Stage | Battlegrounds | Militia and Civilian Life
Prisoners of War | Loyalty and Treason | The War Ends
After the War | Chronology | Soldiering in Canada
Important Figures | Important Places| Glossary
Sources | Links | The Making of a Virtual Exhibit
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The selection of visual materials was a more challenging task. During wartime few people had the time or inclination to illustrate what was going on around them. It was necessary to select images created before or after the war to provide an idea of how things might have looked at the time of the conflict. The art work of Elizabeth Simcoe, wife of Upper Canada's first Lieutenant Governor was particularly valuable in this respect. Thomas Burrowes' watercolours of the St. Lawrence and Kingston region were equally important as a visual source. The work of these two artists forms a valuable part of the Archives holdings. Additional watercolours and drawings of Elizabeth Simcoe and Thomas Burrowes can be viewed through the Archives Visual Database. Other materials were selected to provide an idea of how the war was viewed by later generations, an issue as important in may ways as how it was seen by contemporaries. The portraits of Generals Brock, Drummond and Prevost by Berthon were commissioned by the Government of Ontario to commemorate the history of the province and the British connection. A generation later C. W. Jefferys was creating works of historical imagination which, in their romanticized view of history, helped shape the attitudes of school children through history texts. The documentation of battlefields and monuments through the photographic record provides interesting information on how these sites looked before the development of the historical parks system and the encroachment of suburban development on rural areas. We are indebted to such early amateur photographers as M. O. Hammond, John Boyd and Marsden Kemp for a wealth of images of this nature. |
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Most of the private and official records from the early 19th century featured in this exhibit have been microfilmed for conservation reasons. Researchers are required to use this microfilm to ensure the long term preservation of the originals. Click on the reference code to view a description and for instructions for accessing the records. Private fonds and collections
Government records
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The Lundy’s Lane Historical Society has published many items relating to the War of 1812. Most of these are available through the Archives of Ontario Library. Please consult BIBLiON, the on-line catalogue to the library holdings. |
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documentary heritage of the War of 1812 is rich. This is particularly
true of the correspondence and reports which form the basis for
the information presented in this display. Selection of this material
involved the examination of many documents, choosing those which
illustrated a particular issue or fact in an interesting way.
This was intended, so far as is possible, to present the war and
its aftermath as it was seen by the participants. 
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family correspondence, personal diaries, posters, plans, documentary
art or government records, the Archives of Ontario holdings are
rich of primary sources documenting the effects of the war on
the population of Upper Canada. The materials selected for this
exhibit and listed here reflect the richness of our collections
but is by no means an exhaustive or complete list of the sources
relating to the War at the Archives. In addition to the fonds
and collections listed here, materials from the Archives of Ontario
Library collection and the Archives of Ontario photographic collection
have been used in the virtual exhibit. Additional works of art
are drawn from the Government of Ontario Art Collection.