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Home » Kingston Branch of OGS » Some Historical Context: The Toronto Forest That Brought Down Napoleon
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Some Historical Context: The Toronto Forest That Brought Down Napoleon

by Alan Boyce|Published 1 February 2025-Updated 1 February 2025

Here is a link to a great little 11-minute YouTube video on early industry in Ontario and its effect on geopolitics, at the same time as some of our ancestors were settling here after fleeing the United States…

… and you may have picnicked there!

  • 1790s
  • British Empire
  • Canada
  • Forestry
  • Historical Context
  • Napoleon
  • Toronto

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