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1913 and the Old Fort Days Rev. Thomas Nattress

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Recommended Citation Nattress, Rev. Thomas, "Fort Malden and the Old Fort Days" (1913). SWODA: Windsor & Region Publications. 60. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/swoda-windsor-region/60

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FORT MALDEN I - AND- THE OLD FORT DAYS

-BY- Il REV. THOMAS NATTRESS. B.A.

Published 011 Lite oaasioll of a vis-it of The 011lario H41orical Socie£y to A11rlterstlmrg, Jms4 lite Secottd, I

Re-published Otl the ocaiSiots of a visit of The Outario Historical Society, L/u School 'Tca&lsers oj the CiJy of Cl10tham a11d East and West K4ttl to Amherslbtwg, Seplmtber rztk, I9IJ.

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P•uNTC.o nv Ttoec Ec;Mo p,.,,.TIHO CoMP-AN Y, LtMITLO, l 1913: j l jfort Mal~en anl> 'ttbe ®lb jfort lDa~s.

Probably the rcasc.n why so many of the details of Canadian history ':l'hese notes oa Fort Mnlden aud lhe ~owu have been taken for granted by our history writers, or left untold, is the of were origiua.lly prepared at circ1tmstance that the archives of Britain and would need to be m~to~!;.1~;ty~r -a':et!:;~.~la~{t! 1~1 ~ search~cl for fuller statement oJ fact. One of the events, whose scant re­ of illformatio n ,,.._. exbaused in Uu= resea•ch. cording is to be deplored, is the founding of Fort Malden. at the mouth ~Iready nea-rly all tho old :men whom memories 'vere relied upon for confirmation of fo<'l Aud of the Detroit Ri,·cr and hc:.d waters of Erie. One sentence only detail or hlitoiic incident nrre dead. haw I found touching its carller history prior to 1812, a sentence (ront No atte-snpt was ~ndc: to put the notu in ftlAgMIHf form ltillniU