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Feds may be creating re-enactor hired guns, historian says

Is Ottawa creating squadrons of rent-a-regiment re-enactors by flooding Ontario and Quebec with funds for its War of 1812 bicentennial bash?

That's what historian Gordon Terry fears.

Federal funds are flowing to support more than 100 historical events in towns scattered throughout the two provinces - and Terry cautions the municipalities may have to sweeten the pot to entice overworked volunteer re-enactors to over to their camps.

"What is not realized is it is a finite resource," he said, cautioning an influx of government cash could create a fiercely competitive market environment.

"It's the same money but it competes with itself to buy, to outbid participation."...

Read entire article at Toronto Sun