Season 3, Episode #1 – Benjamin Lett: “The Rob Roy of Upper Canada”

An artist’s depiction of Benjamin Lett based on descriptions of him,
“Benjamin Lett: Rebel Terrorist” by C. Raible in Beaver, 2002
Archives & Special Collections, Brock University Library – archives@brocku.ca

Allan County Democrat

The British Colonist

LAC, RG 5 A 1, Civil Secretary’s Correspondence, Upper Canada Sundries

Thomas Lett, The Life, Trial, and Death of Benjamin Lett, the Canadian Patriot of 1837-38; Together with the Inscription on his Monument (1876)

Allan J. MacDonald, “LETT, BENJAMIN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 8, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003—

The Exchange, Niagara Falls, Edgeworth Ussher

Jane G. V. McGaughey, Violent Loyalties: Manliness, Migration, and the Irish in the Canadas, 1798-1841 (2020)

Geil, Samuel (1853). Map of the vicinity of Niagara Falls :
from actual surveys by Samuel Geil. S.Geil and J.L. Delp. Philadelphia, PA., Maps of the Vicinity of Niagara Falls,
Archives and Special Collections, Brock University Library
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