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Jason Ridler

Jason S. Ridler is a writer, historian and biographer. His monograph on Dr. Omond Solandt will be published by the University of Toronto Press in 2015. A former punk rock musician and cemetery groundskeeper, Mr. Ridler holds a PhD in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada.

Articles by Jason Ridler

Laura Secord Warns FitGgibbon

Battle of Beaver Dams

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Dominique Ducharme

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George Gleig

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Henry Milnes

Drummond, General Sir Gordon

Sir Gordon Drummond

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John Vincent

War of 1812

Battle of Stoney Creek

Death of Isaac Brock, The Battle of Queenston Heights

Battle of Queenston Heights

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Chesapeake Affair 1807

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William "Tiger" Dunlop

James FitzGibbon

James FitzGibbon

Sherbrooke, Sir John Coape

Sir John Coape Sherbrooke

Amherstburg Navy Yard

Fort Amherstburg and the War of 1812

The Battle of Frenchtown, ЊсRemember the River Raisin!Њо

Battle of Frenchtown

The Battle of North Point

Battle of North Point

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Canadian Volunteers in the War of 1812

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Henry Procter (Proctor)

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Canadian Voltigeurs

Voltigeurs of the War of 1812

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Defence Research

Sir George Prevost

Battle of Plattsburgh

HMS Shannon

HMS Shannon

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John Parker Boyd

Alexander Cochrane

Alexander Cochrane

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James Madison

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Fencibles in the War of 1812

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William Hull

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William K. Beall

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James Alexander Gordon

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Arthur Brooke

Regiment

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Robert Heriot Barclay

Treaty of Ghent

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Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe

Battle of Mississinewa River

The Battle of New Orleans, John Keane (detail from Moran)

Battle of New Orleans

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Peter B. Porter

US Admiral Perry, The Battle of Put-in-Bay (Lake Erie)

Oliver Hazard Perry

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Shadrach Byfield

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Adam Muir

Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

Bishop John Strachan

John Strachan

Tending PPCLI Graves

Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI)

Badge of the Royal Canadian Regiment

Royal Canadian Regiment

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Battle of Festubert

Battle of the Somme

Battle of Courcelette

Victoria Cross

Battle of Cambrai

Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Currie

Battle of Mons

Esquimalt Naval Base

History of the Armed Forces in Canada