I’ve spent the past two weeks writing about the nineteenth-century Welsh-Ojibwe chief and missionary Peter Jones (known among the Ojibwe people as Kahkewaquonaby, or “Sacred Waving Feathers”).  When he was born in his mother’s wigwam on Burlington Heights in 1802, few people would have suspected that Jones would one day become a leader of his people, frustrate the authority of a lieutenant […]
A couple of weeks ago my friend and colleague, John Miller, and I submitted a 50-page book proposal to Ashgate Publishing for a new collection of essays under the working title Transatlantic Literary Ecologies: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Atlantic World. After a remarkably fast turnaround, we learned this week that the book will be recommended to the Ashgate […]
Today at the Archives of Ontario I read a lengthy memorandum by John Beverley Robinson, which he wrote by hand the day after the Battle of Queenston Heights in the War of 1812.  A twenty-one year old volunteer in the York Militia, the young Robinson had until then been a complete stranger to warfare. Although he is said to have fought […]
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Kevin Hutchings
