The War and its Myths

This excerpt from the biography of Charles MAIR indicates how novelists and poets came to view the war in the latter part of the century:

“For his subject he selected the Shawnee leader Tecumseh* who had died in the War of 1812, which he viewed as ‘the turning point of Canada's destiny.’”

To find out more about Mair’s literary imagination, click on the link below.