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He was also very generous in contributing articles to The Friends’ newsletter, Fife & Drum, on no fewer than a half dozen occasions over the last year and a half, each piece a polished insight into some less well known aspect of the war as it touched York. My own first warm memory of Bob was in 2003 when I was researching an article on Robert Irvine, an early artist who painted York from the island, then a peninsula, in 1816. In the course of two or three evenings Bob, his brother Tom, Gary Gibson of Amherst, NY, Jonathan Moore of Parks Canada, Peter Rindlisbacher of Amherstburg and I exchanged over 100 e-mails to identify the year the ships in York harbour were painted from evidence of recent changes in their deck configurations. Said Gary Gibson, “In my opinion Bob was the finest War of 1812 scholar Canada, and probably the world, has ever produced. His works have a featured place on my shelves and on the shelves of every other War of 1812 historian I know.” Bob taught elementary school within the Niagara South and Niagara District boards for 34 years before retiring in 2002.
In Review Niagara 1814:The Final Invasion Jon Latimer. Niagara 1814:The Final Invasion. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2009. 96pp. paperback; ISBN 9781846034398. $22.95
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