The Stanstead Militia, 1854-1914

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
The Stanstead Militia, 1854-1914
Abstract
The author notes that since the official role of Canada’s militia was to defend Canada from the United States, an Eastern Townships border community like Stanstead, remote from Montreal and populated largely by Americans, posed a potential problem to nineteenth century Canadian militia authorities. The author's study of militia administration provides an original perspective on local social and political history, and Stanstead’s military evolution from a community whose local military expert, Colonel Alexander Kilborn, thought a volunteer militia unworkable is more revealing than most.
Publication
Journal of Eastern Townships Studies/Revue d’études des Cantons de l’Est
Volume
No. 25
Pages
5-21
Date
Fall 2004
Language
en
URL
Citation
Morton, Desmond. “The Stanstead Militia, 1854-1914.” Journal of Eastern Townships Studies/Revue d’études des Cantons de l’Est No. 25 (Fall 2004): 5–21. http://www.etrc.ca/journal/jets-archive/.
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