It didn’t take long. This week the war of words over commemorations around the War of 1812 are already starting to heat up. The opening salvos in the campaign were lobbed this week by Jeffrey Simpson in a column in the Globe and Mail and a rebuttal in the National Post by historian Chris Champion.

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/10/11/c-p-champion-the-war-of-1812-was-canadas-war-of-survival/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/lets-not-exalt-the-folly-of-1812/article2193482/

It’s a major moment in Canadian history, one that deserves to be commemorated, retold, and debated. Let us know what you think about this debate by going to our forum and posting your own thoughts. How do you think the War of 1812 should be commemorated?