The document provides an overview of a project by the Foundation for Building Sustainable Communities (FBSC) to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. The project includes launching a website, augmented reality videos, a 10-part video series, articles and presentations. It summarizes some of the key battles of the war, its costs, and its local impact in Oshawa, including the involvement of local militias, a prisoner of war camp, and a story of buried treasure. The project aims to educate people about this important historical event through various digital and multimedia platforms.

1. A Funny Thing Happened
On The Way to Montreal
Presentation
Glenn McKnight and Robert Bell,
FBSC

3. “Strike wherever we can
reach the enemy, at sea
and on land. But if we fail,
let us fail like men, lash
ourselves to our gallant
gars, and expire together in
one common struggle,
fighting for free trade and
seaman's rights.”
Henry Clay,
House Speaker,
US Senate
During the War of 1812

4. Table of Contents

War of 1812
Oshawa Project

Big Picture of the
War

Local Activities

Impact of the War

History One

5. The Project

6. The Project
Heritage Canada selected the Foundation for
Building Sustainable Communities, FBSC to
commemorate the 200th anniversary of the
War of 1812

Launch of website. mobile augmented reality
videos, 10 part video series, articles and
presentations

7. The Protagonists
The Aggressors The Targets

8 million Americans 
80,000 settlers

Three types of – 35,000 Loyalist
soldiers, – 25,000 Later Loyalist
The Idealist, – 20,000 Direct British
Opportunists and the 3/4 former Americans
Blood Thirsty 
14,000 Militia

10,000 Natives

British Forces deeply
involved in the European
theatre

8. Declaration of War
America Britian

Divided country on the  Britain, its former colonial
war effort ruler, was the most powerful

Angry over the empire in the world, with
impressment of US 
An army of 48,000
Sailors into the British 
A navy of 600 warships
Navy 
Preoccupied with a long

An army of less than war in Europe against
12,000 Napoleon 1803-1815.

A navy of 16 ships

According to Pres.
Thomas Jefferson,
The war was a
`mere march to
Montreal

9. Major Battles
1813
January 22 – Frenchtown
April 27 – York (Toronto)
April 28 - May 9 – Fort Meigs
May 25-27 – Fort George (Niagara)
June 6 – Stoney Creek
1812
June 24 – Beaver Dams
August 2 – Fort Stephenson (Ohio)
June 18 – Declaration of War
October 5 – Thames
July 17 – Fort Mackinac
October 26 – Châteauguay
August 15 – Fort Dearborn (Chicago)
November 11 – Crysler's Farm
August 16 – Fort Detroit
December 19 – Fort Niagara
September 3-6 – Western Raids
October 13 – Queenston Heights
1814
March 4 – Battle of Longwoods
July 3 – Fort Erie
July 5 – Chippawa
July 17-20 – Prairie du Chien
July 25 – Lundy's Lane
August 4-5 – Michilimackinac
August 15 – Fort Erie
November 5 – Niagara Peninsula
December 24 – Treaty of Ghent

10. Cost of the War
British US

8,600 Deaths 
11,600 Deaths

Captured Michilimackinac, 
Captured Amherstburg and
Fort Niagara and much of Sandwich (now Windsor
eastern Maine 
$90 million dollars or 2.2% of GDP

1523 ships lost or 1.553 Trillion

Many prisoners 
The US Senate figured it would cost

25 Millon pounds to the another $56 million to continue the
national debt war and the US Treasury only had
Canada $15 million

Untold personal property 
1,523 US Ships seized during the war
loss from burning and 
Serious financial loss to commerce
looting of property in the New England states

Human pain and suffering 
Near bankruptcy

11. LOCAL
STORIES

Local Militia

Trade and Commerce

Buried Treasure

Attack on Oshawa Harbour

US POW Camp

12. 
Local Militia

John Kerr 14,000 Provincial

First settler located at Militia
the current site of
Ages 15 to 63 years old
Parkwood Estate
Local militiaswere

Noadiah Woodruff,
Mathew Terwelleger in the training prior to the war
1st Regiment York
Militia,

Roger Conant

Ebenezar Ranson

John McGregor

14. 
Thomas Henry

Paid as a substitute
to become a guard
in the war

Settled in Oshawa
end of war buying
100 acres from
proceeds of selling
weekly militia
rations for $40

15. 
Moode Farewell

Moode Farewell's
Tavern at King and
Harmony Streets

Watering hole for
troops, dispatch
riders to and from
from Kingston to
York and beyond

Closed tavern at end
of war

17. Moode Farewell

18. Buried Treasure

US pursuit of the paymaster's sloop
the Mary Ann sailed into the
Western portion of Oshawa

Ship abandoned and Americans
burned ship

British sailors shirted away the
payroll of $100,000 and buried and it
has never been retrieved

19. Attack on Oshawa Harbour

20. US POW CAMP

21. U S Prison Camp-Fire
US Prison Camp in Oshawa

22. Impact of the War

Americans

Huge financial cost 
Canadians

Unsuccessful in campaign 
Birth of legends

Formation of a professional army 
Forging of an identity

Licence to expand west 
Military experience proved to be

Open season on Native lands critical in the formation of

Building of the Erie Canal communities

Bolster US manufacturing and 
Building and completion of the
cotton production Rideau Canal to bypass the St
Lawrence in 1832 from US
blockade

Tougher stance on US
immigration and intolerance to
Republican sentiments

Seeds set for the Rebellion of
1837

23. A February 2012 poll found
that in a list of items that
could be used to define
Canadians' identity, the fact
that Canada successfully
repelled an American
invasion in the War of 1812
places second (25%), only
behind the fact that Canada
has universal health care
(53%)

25. Website
www.1812waroshawa.com
Historical Geocaching
Augmented Reality
10 Part Video Series

26. Website

28. Video Series

Propaganda and an American Soldier

Robbery of Local Homestead by Militia

Compensation to local farmers

US POW Camp

Conant`s Gold

Attack on Oshawa Harbour

Tecumseh

The Amputation

General Issac Brock

Mary Henry, The other Heroine

29. Augmented Reality
All five of the
Geocache
locations have a
short AR video
viewable from a
smart phone

30. Thanks
Heritage Canada
Foundation for Building Sustainable
Communities
Oshawa Community Museums
Imperial Film Productions
Oshawa Little Theatre
Pickering Village
Clarington Museum
Digital Deceptions
Pictorial Oshawa, Thomas Bockley