Hi my GGGrandfather served in the 1812 war in the sixth regiment and the Glengarry Light Infantry Fencible Regiment. Many of the British Soldiers were Irish, like my ancestor Patrick McNamee. After the war these soldiers were given grants of land and kept on half pay in Upper Canada ( Ontario ) as a way to protect Canada against invasion from the USA. This of course never happened after 1814. Does anyone have any records on thse British/Canadian soldiers, on his homestead census there is older man James Johnson listed as a born in the US and living with his family. I believe this man was the father of my GGGrandmother Rose Johnson. I thinking, I might have some USA ancestors.

Joe wrote in part. . . "After the war these soldiers were given grants of land and kept on half pay in Upper Canada ( Ontario ) as a way to protect Canada against invasion from the USA. This of course never happened after 1814." Sorry to correct you but. . . You forgot the "Fenian Raids" in the1860's We lost a lot of good men to the Yanks in that one. But don't worry few people know that there was a U.S. Gov't backed war between Irish-Americans and Canada in the 1860's. It was sort of a Bay of Pigs/Terrorism affair. Congress kinda hushed that one up when things went totally wrong with their invasion plans. The Americans forgot just how strong the Canadian Loyalist's memories were about 1776 and 1812. It did however lead directly to Canada becoming an independent country in 1867. We have been pretty good neighbours since the 1870's though. Nelson