All HPL Branches are closed on Friday, May 29, for Staff Professional Development Day. Bookmobile is off the road and Extended Access service is not available. Regular service hours resume on Saturday, May 30.
Visit our Virtual Branch at hpl.ca for our online resources and collections.
Please note that filming will take place nearby on the following dates.
May 18 – Filming Preparation (All Day)
May 19 – Filming (7am – 4pm), Concession Street (between Upper Wentworth and East 21st)
The accessible washroom at Greensville Branch is not working. We aim to get it fixed quickly.
All HPL Branches are closed on Sunday, May 17. Bookmobile is off the road. Extended Access service is not available.
Regular service hours resume on Tuesday, May 19. Visit hpl.ca for our Virtual Branch.
All HPL Branches are closed on Monday, May 18. Bookmobile is off the road. Extended Access and Study Hall services are not available. Regular service hours resume on Tuesday, May 19.
Due to Driver availability, Bookmobile has the following schedule modifications for the month of May. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Wednesday, May 13:
Thursday, May 14:
Monday, May 18: All Bookmobile sites closed
Due to software maintenance, HPL library's catalogue, online services and library accounts will not be available between 8am and 7pm on Monday, May 18. Thank you for your patience.
Renovations are currently underway for the 2nd floor Central Children's Area. Programs are still being offered as scheduled and there is a temporary pop-up Children’s Area on the northeast side of the 2nd floor (near the Piano Room), including access to collections and train tables. Construction is expected to be completed by late Spring. Thank you for your patience during this time.
As of Monday, March 2, Sherwood Branch's 2nd floor is closed due to renovations. Makerspace, Children and Teen's collection are temporarily available on the 1st floor. All programs will be held in the basement program room. Renovations are expected to be completed in late Spring. Thank you for your patience.
A.M.M.
For King and Country: A story of 1812. "The Canadian Monthly" Prize Tale. Collections of Canadian Authors.
Toronto: Adam Stevenson & Co., 1874
iv, 264
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Abbot, Willis J.
Blue Jackets of 1812. A history of the Naval Battles of the Second War with Great Britain. To which is prefixed an account of The French War of 1798 By Willis J. Abbot. Author of Blue Jackets of '61 with illustrations by W.C. Jackson and H.W. McVickar.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Publishers.
[1887]
viii, 409
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American Naval Battles; being a Complete History of the battles fought by the navy of the United States, from its establishment in 1794 to the present time; including the wars with France and Tripoli; the late war with Great Britain, and with Algiers; with an account of the attack on Baltimore, and of the battle of New Orleans.
Embellished with twenty elegant engravings, representing battles, &c.
Boston: Printed and Published by Charles Gaylord. 1840
278, I
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An Abstract of the Public Documents, Exhibiting the Measures Recommended by the Administration, and the Proceedings in Relation to Them in Congress, Tending to Subject the People of the United States to a Military Conscription To Fill the Ranks of the Regular Army; and a Naval Impressment, To Supply Seamen for the Public Armed Vessels of the United States.
Georgetown: Printed by Robert Alleson. 1815
8 [uncut]
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An Act Concerning Letters of Marque, Prizes and Prize Goods.
June 26, 1812
An Address to members of the House of Representatives...on the Subject of the War with Great Britain.
see Tracts and Facts as to the War of 1812 (1)
[Anderson, Elbert]
Claims On the United States, By the Late Contractor for the State of New York, &c. For Services During the Late War.
New York: 1824
[3]-179, [1 leaf], 24, [2 pl.]
TPL 969 (without last 2 leaves)
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[Andrews, Charles]
The Prisoner's Memoirs, or Dartmoor Prison: Containing a complete and impartial history of The Entire Captivity of the Americans in England, From the commencement of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, until all prisoners were released by the Treaty of Ghent. Also, a particular detail of all occurrences relative to the Horrid massacre at Dartmoor, On the fatal evening of the 6th of April, 1815. The while carefully compiled by a Prisoner in England, Who was a captive during the whole war.
- Quoeque ipse miserrima vidi,
Et quorum pars magna fui; quis talia fando,
Temperet et lacrymis?
Virg. I., ii, v. 5
"These sufferings I myself have seen, and to the greater part of which a was a principal party. Who can related such woes without a tear?
New York: Printed for the Author, 1852
152
An Answer to War in Disguise; or, Remarks upon The New Doctrine of England, concerning Neutral Trade.
"Illud Natura non patiatur, ut aliorum spoliis nostras facultates, copias, opes, augeamus: et unum debeat esse omnibus propositum, ut eadem sit utilitas uniuscuiusque et universarum, quam si ad se quisque rapiat, dissolvitur omnis humana consortio." Cicero de Oratore. 3
New York: Printed by Hopkins and Seymour for I. Riley & Co., February, 1806
76
Armstrong, John
Notices of the War of 1812. By John Armstrong. In Two Volumes.
Volume I
New-York: George Dearborn, Publisher. 1836
263, errata
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Atherton, William
Narrative of the Suffering & Defeat of the North-Western Army, under General Winchester: massacre of the Prisoners; Sixteen Months Imprisonment of the Writer and Others with the Indians and British.
By William Atherton
Frankfort, KY: Printed for the Author by A.G. Hodges
1842
152
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Auchinleck, Gilbert
The War of 1812. A History of the War between Great Britain and the United States of America During the Years 1812, 1813 and 1814.
Toronto: W.C. Chewett & Co., 1862\vii, [3]-408, 3
Howes 380: Morgan pg. 14 [one of editors of Anglo American Magazine. [Toronto]]: Thibeault 10101
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Austin, Samuel
The Apology of Patriots, or The heresy of the friends of the Washington and peace policy defended. A Sermon preached in Worcester, Massachusetts, on the Day of the National Fast, Thursday, August 20, 1812. Observed in compliance with the recommendation of James Madison, President of the United States: and in consequence of the Declaration of War Against Great-Britain.
Published by request.
Printed in Worcester, by Isaac Sturtevant. 1812\32
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