Stuart has written many dozens of historical reports in his professional career with Public History Inc. Those reports were for litigation and claims processes; this page relates to his writing outside of that realm.
Information on Stuart’s book series Sacred Ground: Loyalist Cemeteries of Eastern Ontario can be found on its own separate page. Two volumes have been published to date. Click here to go to Sacred Ground.
Similarly, there’s a separate page for Stuart’s micro-periodical called The King’s Colour: A Broadside of Early Upper Canada. Click here to go to The King’s Colour.
Below is a list of Stuart’s books and articles.
BOOKS
First Defence: The Militia Battalion of Cornwall & Osnabruck, 1787-1793. (This is the working title of Stuart’s forthcoming book – a history of the earliest militia of Stormont County.)
Sacred Ground: Loyalist Cemeteries of Eastern Ontario, Volume Two. Carleton Place, ON: Global Heritage Press, 2023.
Sacred Ground: Loyalist Cemeteries of Eastern Ontario, Volume One. Carleton Place, ON: Global Heritage Press, 2021.
(See the separate, dedicated page for Stuart’s book series Sacred Ground: Loyalist Cemeteries of Eastern Ontario.)
To Repel the Wicked: The Home Guard of Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry, 1837-1843. Cornwall, ON: SD&G Historical Society, 1999.
Book reviews and commentary on To Repel the Wicked:
“Studies, large and small, on the military aspects of the 1837-1838 rebellions are woefully rare so this short study of the volunteer militia of Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry is most welcome. This study is well researched from primary source documents and has interesting period illustrations not before seen. There is also a good drawing reconstructing from fragments the colours of the 5th Battalion of Embodied Militia. The book’s four chapters outline the organization and social impact of the volunteers in this part of what is no eastern Ontario. The origins, services, and equipments of each volunteer corps raised in the area is given, along with an account of some of the personalities in their ranks. Some of them were certainly colourful fellows as revealed in the sections dealing with the volunteers’ relations with their community. We could use more military studies like this of pre-1867 Canada.” -René Chartrand, Canadian Military History Book Review Supplement (Spring 1999), pp. 18-19.
“Stuart Manson’s study of the militia in Glengarry County demonstrates how local and personal issues were played out against the backdrop of the broader military response to the threat of border raids. In one incident a disgruntled militia officer struck… a regular British officer assigned to Particular Service in the Eastern District, a vicious blow to the head over an alleged slur on his wife’s character. The image of two senior military figures brawling on the streets of Cornwall illustrates how norms of behaviour could be sacrificed under the tensions that existed at that time.” -Dennis Carter-Edwards, Ontario History, Vol. CI, No. 2 (Autumn 2009), pp. 166-167.
ARTICLES
“The Burials of Crysler’s Farm” in Battlefield Dispatch (Newsletter of the Friends of Crysler’s Farm Battlefield), forthcoming in 2024.
“Attended with Disagreeable Consequences: Cross-Border Shopping for Loyalist Provisions in 1783-1784” in The Journal of the American Revolution, Annual Volume 2024, (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2024) pp. 315-324. The original article previously appeared in the journal in 2023 (see below).
“Visitors at Heritage Cemeteries Connect with Rich History” in Beyond (Bereavement Authority of Ontario Magazine), Issue 9 (April 2024) pp. 16-19.
“John Chisholm of Roxborough and his Hidden Documents” in Seaway News, Vol. 39, Issue 4 (September 20, 2023), p. 13. A longer version appeared on the newspaper’s website on September 13, 2023.
“Attended with Disagreeable Consequences: Cross-Border Shopping for Loyalist Provisions in 1783-1784” in The Journal of the American Revolution, March 14, 2023. The article also appeared in the journal’s hardcover annual volume (see above).
“Merry Christmas from Mary and Annie Mistal, 1926” in The Brandon Sun, December 24, 2022.
“Due and Generous Attention: Researching Loyalist Compensation Claims” in The Loyalist Gazette, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Spring 2022), pp. 42-43.
“The Lost Village of Dostrois” in Nation Valley News, December 19, 2020.
“Where in the World is Sir James Pliny Whitney?‘ in Nation Valley News, July 21, 2020.
“Loyalist Burial Site Commemoration Project” in The Loyalist Gazette, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Spring 2019), p. 27.
“A Legacy Lost: The Demolition of St. John’s Presbyterian Cemetery” in The Loyalist Gazette, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 13-15.
“Like Father, Like Son: The Johnson Family and the Town Site of Cornwall” in The Loyalist Gazette, Vol. 36, No.1 (Spring 1998), pp. 22-24.
“Robert Fraser’s Fort Augustus: An Examination of Cornwall’s Windmill Fort” in SD&G Historical Society Yearbook 1997. Cornwall, ON: SD&G Historical Society, 1997.
“Looking Backward,” a local history column in The Seaway News (Cornwall, ON), 1995-1998. (See the Newsblog post of February 19, 2023.)
Several of Stuart’s blog posts are content-laden articles. Below is a handy recapitulation of these articles. Click the title to jump to the blog post.
The Sacrifices of the Annables
What Shall We Do With a Drunken Tailor?
Stuart Lyall Manson 