Laura Secord’s Walk

She walked because her husband was injured and he couldn’t do it himself. She walked because, if she didn’t, the invading Americans would gain another foothold on British-controlled Canadian territory. She walked because she didn’t fear the hazards faced by a woman of the nineteenth century traveling on foot. Laura Secord, née Ingersoll, Canadian heroine of the War of 1812, is remembered today in Canada not because she fought in a war like Joan of Arc or because she nursed soldiers back to health like Florence Nightingale.