From the May 14th CBC News.
Tour guide Ron Lapointe wants an Essex County bridge renamed where County Road 20 crosses River Canard, just south of Windsor, Ontario (across from Detroit).
Back in 1812, a 280 man American force faced two British soldiers, James Hancock and John Dean, at the bridge. A plaque at the bridge doesn't mention their names, only that a sentry was there.
It is today called the Skirmish at River Canard and James Hancock became the first one to die in the war. Dean was taken prisoner..
The current bridge is not the actual one where the skirmish took place which was a wooden one. Lapointe hopes to have the new plaque in place by July 16th, the day the fight took place two hundred years ago.
The Canard River Skirmish. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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