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Using pinhole cameras he built himself, Tod Ainslie has captured some intriguing images of what the War of 1812 might have looked like -- more than two decades before the invention of the Daguerreotype

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Dundurn on Burlington Heights, Hamilton, Ontario November 2007 (printed 2008).Brian Boyle

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Horseshoe Bend, on the Tallapoosa River, Alabama October 2009 (printed 2010).Brian Boyle

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East Entrance of Fort York, Toronto, Ontario November 2006 (printed 2008).Brian Boyle

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Fort Mississauga, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario 2001 (printed 2009).Brian Boyle

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Pathway between Gate of the Five Nations and South Redoubt, Fort Niagara, Youngstown, New York May 2007 (printed 2009).Brian Boyle

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