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Private Notes
It is one of the legendary moments of military history: On October 13 1812 British General Isaac Brock, shot by an American soldier, uttered the immortal words: "Push on the brave York volunteers" and died. Inspired, his soldiers rallied and won the day. But is this really what happened? Ann Jarvis Boa doesn't think so and she's a descendant of a soldier who was there--one of the Volunteers from York.
At the height of the Metis uprising in Saskatchewan in 1870, its leader Louis Riel tried and executed his sworn enemy, Thomas Scott, and allegedly had his body dropped through a hole in a frozen river--never to be seen again. The uproar caused by that execution would eventually result in Riel's own execution in 1885. The history books say that was the end of the matter. But was it?
