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A combination of the rail’s unusual grave and fortuitous recovery almost 150 years later provides us with a rare reminder of the earliest railways in the province, the development of the City’s waterfront and the famous Queen’s Wharf itself. The rail and some of the massive wooden cribbing from the wharf, both now on permanent display at Fort York, were recovered from the condominium excavations with the cooperation of Malibu Investments Inc. Our Mistake Our fact-checkers failed David Juliusson in editing his piece, “Spreading the News In 1813” (Fife & Drum, July 2007). He said there that during the War of 1812 a dozen newspapers were being published in Upper Canada. A reader, Chris Raible, pointed out that at most only four newspapers existed in the province for all or part of that period, offering as his source ‘Appendix A’ in Upper Canadian Imprints, 1801-1841 by Dr. Patricia Fleming (who recently joined The Friends’ board). Ed.
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