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Editor: Jennifer McKnight

Cover and text design: Jennifer Scott

Epub Design: Carmen Giraudy

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Merritt, Richard

On common ground [electronic resource] : the ongoing story of the Commons in Niagara-on-the-Lake/Richard D. Merritt.

Includes index.

Electronic resource issued in PDF and EPUB formats.
Also issued in print format.

ISBN 978-1-4597-0350-6

1. Commons--Ontario--Niagara-on-the-Lake--History. 2. Niagara-on-the-Lake (Ont.)--History. I. Title.

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Front cover (top): A View of Niagara Taken from the Heights Near Navy Hall, artist James Peachey, watercolour, 1783 or 1787. This early painting illustrates a portion of Navy Hall at the water’s edge and the British-held Fort Niagara across the river. The open grassy plain on the left, although reserved for military purposes, is being used as common lands.
Library and Archives Canada, James Peachey collection, C-002035.

FRONT COVER (BELOW): Camp Niagara 1918, photo, A. Hardwick, 1918. During the Great War, Camp Niagara occupied almost the entire Fort George Military Reserve/Commons.
Courtesy of Jim Smith and Peter Moogk.

BACK COVER: A summer ramble along Sheaffe Road, photo. A side trail of the Bruce Trail on the Commons.
Courtesy Jim Smith.