THE FORGOTTEN INVASIONS The country is Canada. The year is 1866, the year after the end of the American Civil War. The scene: the "ridge road" in Welland County, Ontario, a dozen miles from Fort Erie. A New York journalist has in need of a rest is joined by an old schoolmate, a professor in University College Toronto. They set out to find a camping place, meet two agreeable Canadian girls—and find romance, adventure and the remarkable rustic characters of Ontario. They also find a forgotten invasion. In 1866 groups of Irish Americans—the Fenians—crossed the Canadian Border to attack British troops at British forts to protest British rule of Ireland. They called themselves the IRA—the Irish Republican Army.