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Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 by Barry Gough Keith R Document généré le 2 oct. 2021 10:27 Ontario History Through Water, Ice & Fire: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 By Barry Gough Keith R. Widder Forging Freedom: In Honour of the Bicentenary of the British Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade Volume 99, numéro 1, spring 2007 URI : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1065802ar DOI : https://doi.org/10.7202/1065802ar Aller au sommaire du numéro Éditeur(s) The Ontario Historical Society ISSN 0030-2953 (imprimé) 2371-4654 (numérique) Découvrir la revue Citer ce compte rendu Widder, K. R. (2007). Compte rendu de [Through Water, Ice & Fire: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 By Barry Gough]. Ontario History, 99(1), 115–117. https://doi.org/10.7202/1065802ar Copyright © The Ontario Historical Society, 2007 Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d’auteur. L’utilisation des services d’Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d’utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne. https://apropos.erudit.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/ Cet article est diffusé et préservé par Érudit. Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l’Université de Montréal, l’Université Laval et l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. https://www.erudit.org/fr/ book revews 11 what is contained in Telling Our Stories is ing, values and daily practice are transmit- not available on the website, and the book ted incidentally in the course of describing has its own distinct charms. In its nine the actions and thoughts of the protago- chapters it focuses on particular themes: nists. I know of few books that so effective- origin stories, the Mi-te-wi-win (“shaman- ly transmit a cultural world as does this one ism”), early contact narratives, Cree versus in its combination of traditional tales, oral European weaponry, Christianity, and a histories, and commentary and explication moving account of a devastating epidemic. by an internal expert, Louis Bird. The stories in themselves are absorbing and Telling Our Stories will be a tremen- wTelling our Stories: Omushkego Legends and Histories from Hudson Bay engaging, well-told and rich in meaning. dous teaching tool for students of virtually wThrough Water, Ice & Fire: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 Most of the chapters have useful introduc- any age, from primary school to university. wUnder the North Star: Black Communities in Upper Canada tions by the University of Winnipeg re- In salvaging what knowledge he can, as the w B From Quaker to Upper Canadian: Faith and Community among Yonge Street Friends, 1801-1850 searchers who worked on the Omushkego forces of colonization and modernization wRevival in the City: The Impact of American Evangelists in Canada, 1884-1914 wDeath in the Queen City: Clara Ford on Trial, 1895 project, writing of their collaboration with pry the generations apart and impose the wThe Canadian Niagara Power Company Story Mr. Bird and providing historical and cul- English language, Louis Bird is attempt- wCanada and the First World War: Essays in Honour of Robert Craig Brown tural context. Mr. Bird himself contextual- ing primarily to preserve his culture for the wRockefeller, Carnegie, & Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada izes the stories too, largely by describing Omushkego generations to come, hoping key aspects of the traditional Omushkego they will return to it. At the same time, lifestyle. He also explains the motivations he has offered the rest of the world access and concerns behind his project of record- to the thought, knowledge, struggles and ing as much Omushkego culture as possi- historical understanding of his Omushke- ble, focussing particularly on his fear that gowak people. the Omushkego language is disappearing and, with it, the wealth of stories it carries. Robin Jarvis Brownlie Louis Bird’s concern to save an ancient, University of Manitoba vital tradition frames the book and much of his narrative, but for the reader this is only one component of the experience. To Bibliography: a non-Omushkego, the reading experience Bird, Louis. Omushkego Legends. Omush- also includes a sense of being admitted into kego Oral History Project, Centre for the thought world and lived experience of Rupert’s Land Studies, University of Win- the Omushkegowak. In any one story here, nipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 2006. See countless elements of belief, understand- <http:// www.ourvoices.ca> Through Water, Ice & Fire: Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812 By Barry Gough. Toronto: Dundurn Press, shed out in great detail the Nancy’s story 2006. 213 pp. $24.99 softcover. ISBN 1- that he began to tell several years earlier in 55002-569-4. Fighting Sail on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. By placing the activities of one ship at hrough Water, Ice & Fire is a biography the centre of his narrative, Gough draws of the Nancy, a sailing vessel that played our attention away from more familiar anT important role on the Great Lakes dur- players in the War of 1812 such as Tecum- ing the War of 1812. Barry Gough has fle- seh, Isaac Brock, Oliver Hazard Perry and 11 ONTARIO HISTORY William Henry Harri- ican enemies. Mack- son. Gough’s presenta- intosh had sailed tion enables us to see from Michilimacki- the interconnections nac unaware of Per- among the British mili- ry’s victory over the tary, the fur trade, mar- British fleet on Lake itime commerce, and Erie, and miracu- the changing fortunes lously made it back to of the War. He demon- Mackinac Island un- strates the importance scathed. The Nancy of shipbuilding, and es- needed repairs, how- pecially the Americans’ ever, and Mackintosh successful effort to refused the order of build a fleet powerful Captain Richard Bul- enough to win control lock, commandant of of Lake Erie. Gough Fort Mackinac, to sail makes it clear that it to Matchedash Bay mattered a great deal (at the foot of Geor- who controlled the wa- gian Bay) to procure ter routes through the badly-needed provi- Great Lakes and that sions. naval activity on Lake Erie and Lake Huron Gough is at his best as he recreates the needs to be part of the interpretation of fiery end of the Nancy. Lieutenant Miller events that took place during the War. Af- Worsley of the Royal Navy, who had taken ter all, Great Britain and the United States command on 2 August 1814, put up a fierce were engaged in a bitter conflict that both defense of his ship in the teeth of a blister- nations saw as a battle for hegemony in the ing American bombardment on 14 August region surrounding the Great Lakes. while the Nancy took refuge on the Not- Gough gives us a view from the water tawasaga River. When Worsley’s efforts of the western Great Lakes at war. We see proved futile in the face of a superior force, the Nancy’s courageous captain, Alexander he burned the Nancy to keep the Americans Mackintosh, carrying troops and arma- from capturing it and using it against the ments to support the unsuccessful British British. Fortunately, Gough does not end campaigns against Fort Meigs (near Toledo the story there. He recounts the efforts of today) in April and July 1813, and nearby William Wilson, C.H.J. Snider and Dr. F.J. at Fort Stephenson in July of that year. Conboy in keeping alive the memory of the The Nancy served as a lifeline, transport- Nancy. They finally located the charred -re ing goods and people between Amherst- mains, and parts of the ship ultimately found burg and Michilimackinac, and between their way into the Museum of the Upper there and St. Joseph’s Island and Sault Ste. Lakes on Nancy Island (in the Nottawasaga Marie. Gough takes us on the Nancy’s voy- River, near Wasaga Beach) in 1968. age southward through Lake Huron in Many illustrations bring Through Wa- October 1813, and we watch the gallant ter, Ice & Fire to life. Portraits, manuscript crew keep the vessel afloat during violent maps, paintings and sketches help the storms and out of the hands of their Amer- reader to visualize the world as it appeared book revews 117 to the crew of the Nancy and other people Through Water, Ice & Fire will be useful who took part in the struggle for naval su- to readers who are interested in the Great premacy on Lake Huron. The timeline that Lakes fur trade, the rivalry between Great appears at the beginning of the book will Britain and the United States for the deter- help readers keep track of a complicated mining and controlling the international sequence of events. Missing, however, is a border, and the naval and military history good map that identifies points visited by of these two nations. the Nancy on Lakes Huron and Erie, and important places on the land surrounding Keith R. Widder them. We are told that General William Michigan State University, East Lansing Hull led an American force across the St. Clair River, first to invade Canada on 12 Bibliography: July 1812, and then to retreat several weeks Gough, Barry. Fighting Sail on Lake Huron later. (pp. 47, 55) Actually, Hull crossed and Georgian Bay: The War of 1812 and the Detroit River; more careful proofread- its aftermath. Annapolis, Maryland: Na- ing would have caught this error. val Institute Press, 2002. Under the North Star: Black Communities in Upper Canada By Donald G. Simpson. Edited by Paul Blacks during this period but also uses E. Lovejoy. A Publication of the Harriet this history as a catalyst for examining Tubman Resource Centre on the African the evolving nature of Canada-U.S.
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