Publications
The Brown Homestead, 2022
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Completed with Triggs Heritage Consulting in Fort Erie, Ontario. So far, this includes locations in Windsor, Fort Erie, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls, Welland, Wainfleet, and Caistor. Here’s a sample:
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The Niagara Community Observatory and Brock University has partnered with the Wilson Foundation to tell the story of Niagara’s economic development from pre-1900 to the present day. The information and knowledge gathered is being presented through digital media, archives and special collections’ exhibitions and symposiums for researchers and the academic community.
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Read the fascinating history of one of Niagara’s oldest homes, built c. 1805.
The Rathfon Inn is currently a private family home, situated on a spacious nine-acre property on the rocky shores of Lake Erie, and has served as a gathering place for the community on many special occasions. It is situated within Wainfleet Township, Welland County, where settlement began as early as the 1780s.
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This is the story of the oldest recorded tornado in Canada.
Linzel, Jessica. “Tornado in Niagara: An 18th Century Canadian Catastrophe.” Network in Canadian History & Environment. March 9, 2023.
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Essays relating to local trade and communications, the relationships between the Loyalist refugees who came to Niagara in the 1780s and their new environment. Learn about whiskey and potash production, and other early colonial industries.
“The Worst in the World!” The Troubled History of Niagara’s Roadways (2022)
Producing Potash at Rockway: A Fifteen Mile Falls Community (2023)
An Inclement Journey Across Niagara, 1803 (2023)
Enough to Sink the Barrel: A Brief Overview of Early Whisky Production in Niagara (2024)
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M.A. Thesis, Brock University, 2020
"Re-imagining Niagara: A Spatial Study of Economic Development (1783-1812)”