Jeffrey Amherst’s Legacy and Modern Reconciliation

Authors

Elizabeth Cousineau, Sheridan College
Madison Summers, Sheridan College
Buckley Yates, Sheridan College
Owen Maertens, Sheridan College

Document Type

Student Work

Publication Date

2020

Keywords

Jeffrey Amherst, Amherstburg, 7 Years War, biological warfare, smallpox, controversial places

Description

Our Tiki Toki timeline aims to lay out the controversial life and legacy of Lord Jeffrey Amherst, a prominent British Army officer that played a pivotal role in the Seven Years War and Pontiac’s War. Jeffrey Amherst’s legacy has come into question more recently because of the letters he exchanged with Colonel Henry Bouquet, in which Amherst expresses his desire to ‘exterminate’ the Indingenous Peoples during Pontiac’s war by use of smallpox blankets (biological warfare).

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Faculty

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (FHASS)

Copyright

© Elizabeth Cousineau, Madison Summers, Buckley Yates, Owen Maertens

Terms of Use

Terms of Use for Works posted in SOURCE.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

SOURCE Citation

Cousineau, Elizabeth; Summers, Madison; Yates, Buckley; and Maertens, Owen, "Jeffrey Amherst’s Legacy and Modern Reconciliation" (2020). Controversial Commemorations in Ontario: Fall 2020. 19.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/swfhass_projects_public_history_cco/19