Publisher's Synopsis
Brigadier-General Ernest Alexander Cruikshank (1853-1939) was a Canadian author and noted authority on Ontario history. He wrote a number of books on this subject. He was Chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He was a member of the Royal Society of Canada and President of the Ontario Historical Society. His works include: Queenston Heights (1890), A Century of Municipal History, 1792-1892 (1892), The Story of Butler's Rangers and the Settlement of Niagara (1893), The Fight in the Beechwoods: A Study in Canadian History (1895), The Battle of Fort George (1896), Drummond's Winter Campaign, 1813 (1900), The Action at Cook's Mills (1923), A Memoir of Colonel the Honorable James Kerby (1931), The Life of Sir Henry Morgan (1935) and The Political Adventures of John Henry (1936).
