Associate Professor

• 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