Excerpt from Early History of the Town of Amherstburg: A Short, Concise and Interesting Sketch, With Explanatory Notes

Records dealing with Southern Ontario had been printed by The Pioneer and Historical Society of Michigan in their annual volumes. I came upon some references to early Amherstburg, and becoming interested I carefully followed up the record as fas as therein contained. To my surprise I found that Fort Malden did not exist in the early days, but that Fort Amherstburg did. Then I turned up a number of historical books and papers and found that many others had made the same mistake, and that some who should have been acquainted with the military history of that section had been misnaming the fort and had been perpetuating the mistake. I found that three different forts.

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