We were thrilled to continue to have these conversations with Don. We knew he was seriously ill and we were racing against time to work through the extensive episode list that we had developed with him.

This episode recorded on November 6, 2025 would be the last one that we would record with Don shortly before his passing.

In this episode we look at Canadian militia regiments and how the militia was structured in Upper and Lower Canada leading into the war years.

We also discuss how the structure, role and use of the militia evolved through the war.

Don Graves was a well known Canadian military historian who published his first work on a War of 1812 subject in the late 1970s and since that time has brought out five books on 1812 topics as well as three volumes of memoirs and edited a new edit ...