RCMI Member and amateur historian Anthony Partington discusses the efforts to find a viable defence policy for the British Canadian territories after the War of 1812, and the series of policy studies that helped drive them in the end to self-government and Confederation.
A print version of this presentation was published in The Fife and Drum: The Newsletter of The Friends of Fort York and Garrison Common Volume 22 No. 3, October 2018 p.6, under the title ‘After the War of 1812: the strategy and cost of defending British North America”.
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