Episode notes
Thomas has previously supported us with a presentation at our 2025 conference in Mississauga, ON where he talked about the British capture, defense and ultimate loss of Mackinac. That video can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/live/7lAH7o4Y...
Thomas Malcomson, PhD, was as a professor in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at George Brown College, Toronto, for 32 years. He taught courses in psychology, dying, death and bereavement, and in the history of labour, genocide, and eugenics. He has written and presented extensively on the British Navy at the end of the long 18th century, with a focus on the War of 1812, and the following decades on the Great Lakes. He is the current president of the Canadian Nautical Research Society, which publishes the journal The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord.
Thomas discussed the activities of the respective navies during the year 1812. Ship to ship frigate activities on the Atlantic and the beginning of the building of naval forces on the Great Lakes.
This episode was recorded on March 13, 2026