May 21, 2022 by Adrienne Shadd Robert Scott and the Coloured Corps Robert Scott was a free Black yeoman living in the town of York in 1810. He was a new
May 21, 2022 by Friends of Fort York Nominal Roll of the Coloured Corps The unit was formed at Fort George in August 1812 and disbanded there in March 1815. These are the
October 1, 2012 by Meyler Peter Rather Dead than Enslaved: The Blacks of York in the War of 1812 In 1812 York may have been a “dirty straggling village,” but Upper Canada’s capital was also a place of