Associate Professor
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- Early surveys and settlement of the Niagara Peninsula
- Historical geography of Thorold and neighbouring townships
- History of Brock University campus
Research
- The American Surrender at Beaverdams
- The Brock University Campus Map of 1822
- Where Did Brock Fall?
- How Brock’s Shoulder Got to Brock?
- The Opening of the First Welland Canal
- From Duryea to Gove: Making Cars in Thorold
- Early Methodism and Welland Avenue United Church
- Early Shipping and Shipbuilding on the Twelve
- The Evolution of St. Catharines as a Municipality
- The Feeder Canal and Its Communities
- The Beginnings of Local Government in Niagara
- The Communities of the “First” Welland Canal
- The Fisherman’s Path
- Daniel Hazen, Surveyor of Grantham Township
- Henderson’s Pharmacy: 70 Years of Service
- “History That Isn’t So”
- Shades of Reynoldsville and Decew Town: A History of Power Glen and Vicinity
- Johann Schiller: Father of Canadian Wine
- Who Was Junius?
- Laura Secord and the Prince of Wales
- Following in Laura’s Footsteps
- On the Meaning of “Niagara”
- William Hamilton Merritt and Pell’s Canal
- Surveying Merritt’s Ditch
- The Early History of Merritton
- When the Mountain Became the Escarpment
- Secord, Servos and Niagara’s First Mills
- Richard Pierpoint and the Naming of Dick’s Creek
- Porter Adams and Grape-Growing in Niagara
- The Prince of Wales in Niagara
- Terrorist Attacks on the Welland Canal
- The Theal House at Brock University
- The Naming of Niagara’s Townships
- The 1855 Map of Welland City