In the Terrible Weather of Guns

Susan McKnight is an administrator of the Courts Technology Integrated Justice Project at the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General.

Joseph Willcocks was a talented, fiery, and passionate man who emigrated
from Ireland to Canada in 1800 and became a traitor to the Canadian
cause during the War of 1812, ensuring his disappearance from the
history books. In recounting his subject’s many trials and
tribulations, the author uses a unique format, combining poetry with
excerpts from letters and diaries. It’s a compelling and powerfully
told story, and one that effectively makes the case that Willcocks’s
decision to turn traitor had more to do with genuine political beliefs
than with any enmity toward Canada as a country. The book ends with
notes on the poems and an afterword titled “The Life and Times of
Joseph Willcocks.”

John B. Lee is an internationally acclaimed author of 30 books. In this
work, he has done admirable justice to “the forgotten and the
maligned.”