CANTON -- The St. Lawrence County Historical Association (SLCHA) has released their 2015 issue of its magazine entitled The Quarterly.

It includes an article titled “Notes Toward a History of the Mohawks of Akwesasne, 1755-2000.” What is sometimes called the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation is the only reservation spanning two nations, two provinces, and two counties, according to the association officials.

Issues of The Quarterly can be purchased at the Silas Wright House, 3 ½ East Main St.

Dr. Robert N. Wells, retired historian from St. Lawrence University, sketches the nearly 250 years of history of this Indian nation from the Seven Years War (French and Indian War), to the fame of the steelwalkers (high steel construction specialists), to recent troubles with customs authorities and schools, to collaboration with St. Lawrence University to improve Mohawk graduation rates.

Another story “From the Battle of the Windmill to Van Diemen’s Land” by Toronto scholar John C. Carter follows the fates of three Ogdensburg men who were captured by Canadian forces while participating in the Rebellion of 1838, called the Battle of the Windmill. The men were convicted and transported to prison for several years on Tasmania, a large island south of Australia.

Adam J. Barnes reports on the illustrious multigenerational Russell family of Canton, beginning with John Leslie Russell, an assemblyman, participant in the state constitutional convention, and friend of Governor Silas Wright. John’s son Leslie also excelled in politics, serving for a time as state attorney general. Leslie’s children included Lawrence, attorney for Canton Village, who in the late nineteenth century sued a local manufacturer to reduce pollution in the Grasse River. Other children included a newspaper journalist and a popular mystery writer.

Also in the issue: old postcards of downtown in Edwardsville, Madrid, Massena, and Norfolk with commentary by town historians.

Contact the association at 386-8133 fore more information.