The U.S. campaign of 1813 to Capture Montreal

"Well-written narrative of the American campaign of 1813." - United Empire, 1916

Robert Sellar (1841-1919) emigrated to Upper Canada from Scotland in 1856 where he secured employment as a printer's apprentice.

In order to chronicle the heroism of the region's original British settlers and to refute the growing notion that the only true "children of the soil" were French Canadian, Sellar wrote a collections of simple stories of backwoods life. Other literary works by Sellar depicting pioneer l...