Old Fort Erie provides a fascinating glimpse into Canada's colorful past. Uniformed guides stage impromptu dramas.
American kids know more about early Ontario history than our own Canadian children.
I gleaned from recent a visit to Old Fort Erie, a Canadian historic shrine. It's directly across the Niagara River from Buffalo and about 145 km from Toronto. A chief guide at the fort also mentioned that Canadians over 40 years old generally have a fair knowledge of the American invasion of Upper Canada in the War of 1812. Younger Ontario visitors tend to know practically nothing about it. That's because Ontario public schools in the 1970s dropped 19th-century Canadian history from the curriculum.