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Toronto Star: A long-dead war hero makes magic at Ontario school

Mar 16, 2016

The head of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa got a letter last fall from a student asking him to come to her school in Ajax, Ont., to help to argue that Sir Isaac Brock was the “Greatest Canadian Ever.” Mark O’Neill knew that if he brought Brock’s 200-year-old red army tunic — the one he died in at the Battle of Queenston Heights in 1812; fatal musket-ball hole still under the left lapel — it would make an impact on the young historians of Dr. Roberta Bondar Public School.

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