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  • Warriors and Warships

  • Conflict on the Great Lakes and the Legacy of Point Frederick
  • Written by: Robert D. Banks
  • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
  • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Written by: Robert D. Banks
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The untold story of Point Frederick, where early nineteenth-century Canadians built warships that stopped invasion, brought peace, and the world's longest undefended border.

Opposite Kingston, Point Frederick became the 1789 dockyard home of the navy on Lake Ontario. Armed vessels were built to transport settlers and the military.

War in 1812 prompted the need for larger warships. Shipwrights were critical to winning the war. French Canadians from Quebec shipyards worked with the British to build warships with massive firepower.

In 1814, two invading armies advanced on outnumbered British and Canadians holding Niagara. Meanwhile, powerful Royal Navy warships sailed toward the action, unchallenged. When advised he was without naval support, the American commander halted his advance and withdrew from Canada.

With peace, the need for warships vanished. But threats of rebellion and insurgence demanded gunboats, and continued naval presence until 1853, when the dockyard finally closed. Glimpses of dockyard legacy are found today in Kingston waters, and on the grounds of the Royal Military College of Canada.
©2023 Robert D. Banks (P)2023 Tantor
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An often overlooked history of early Canada

While I was aware of the naval presence on Point Frederick before it became RMC (I am a graduate of the college), I didn’t realize the overall significance of the Kingston area during the 1812-1814 war. Banks provides a lot of interesting detail on Royal Navy activities, especially relating to the challenges of maintaining warships on Lake Ontario during that time in Upper Canada. For anyone interested in this particular period of Canadian military history and the advent of nationhood in the years following, this book is a nice addition to the many others written about the war and this period of history in general.

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