{"title":"The Many Lives of James Milne Aitchison, Battle of Windsor Raider","authors":"Ian Hundey","doi":"10.7202/1106171ar","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"James Milne Aitchison was a privileged child in rural Scotland, a troubled young man in Edinburgh, a failed immigrant in Upper Canada, a Patriot raider at the Battle of Windsor in December 1838, a Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) convict, and a colonist in what is now Victoria State, Australia. This article explores Aitchison’s many ‘lives’, drawing on fifty years of the author’s research-findings including material from the recent rescue of a cache of Aitchison documents from an abandoned house in Scotland.","PeriodicalId":82228,"journal":{"name":"Ontario history","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ontario history","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1106171ar","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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James Milne Aitchison was a privileged child in rural Scotland, a troubled young man in Edinburgh, a failed immigrant in Upper Canada, a Patriot raider at the Battle of Windsor in December 1838, a Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) convict, and a colonist in what is now Victoria State, Australia. This article explores Aitchison’s many ‘lives’, drawing on fifty years of the author’s research-findings including material from the recent rescue of a cache of Aitchison documents from an abandoned house in Scotland.