The Loyalist Gazette articles from March 1996

The Loyalist Gazette archives from March 1996

Publicity, publicity, publicity: " the story of the Loyalists is still one of the best-kept secrets in Canada".
March 22, 1996... The United Empire Loyalists, as the third founding nation of Canada after the Indians and the French, have at least three million descendants spread across this great nation of ours. Unfortunately the story of the Loyalists is still one of...

Battle of Stone Arabia (New York State).
March 22, 1996... On the morning of October 19, 1780, a British force consisting of the 8th Regiment, 34th Regiment, Butler's Rangers, King's Royal Regiment of New York, Yager Riflemen and Indians totalling about 700 men under the command of Colonel Sir John...

Canadians are comimg! The Canadians are coming!
March 22, 1996... It must have seemed an invasion indeed when 45 UEL members, friends and relatives from across Canada descended on the small towns and historic sites of New York State's Mohawk Valley one weekend last October. The call to be present, even...

Loyalists of Cape Breton.
March 22, 1996... The Loyalists have been a relatively unknown group among the early settlers of Cape Breton. This is largely because their numbers were not great, they were swamped by the Scottish migration into the island and because the political and social...

(George) Washington's French volunteers.
March 22, 1996... Besides La Fayette, many French volunteers joined the American Forces. Of all those who crossed the seas two hundred years ago to fight for American Independence the best known is, of course, La Fayette. So completely did this young...

Branching out: news from the branches.
March 22, 1996... Chilliwack Branch Chilliwack Branch, chartered 18 October 1990, celebrated its fifth anniversary with a special pre-Christmas meeting at the end of November. Fifty-five people (many in period costume) attended the celebration based on the...

Post-war meeting of Meyers & Schuyler.
March 22, 1996... Mary pulled back the beige muslin curtains from the window and looked down the path to the main trail. Between the budding maples, she could see a white-haired man with a felt fur hat perched high on his head, approaching the cabin on a...

Digging for roots & links to the past.
March 22, 1996... What's in a Name? Besides using names to identify themselves, most people seldom give their names a second thought. But when Barbara Wright discovered the name Washington in her family Bible, connecting her to the George Washington,...

God save the Queen.
March 22, 1996... Today, in Canada, many question the value of the monarchy in Canadian life, arguing that it is illogical and out-of-date. But the Crown has saved us from American republicanism, the centralist factions in Ottawa and, ironically, the Crown has...

Index of land claim certificates of Upper Canada militiamen who served in the War of 1812-1814.
March 22, 1996... This recent book makes a handy companion piece to the one issued by William Gray. It contains samples of period documents and lists the names of hundreds of Militiamen and, most importantly the location of each entry at the National Archives....

Johnny Bluenose at the polls: epic Nova Scotian election battles 1758-1848.
March 22, 1996... This is the story of the early days of election campaigning in Nova Scotia. Historian Brian Cuthbertson describes the province's first ninety years of hard-fought elections from 1758 to 1848. What emerges is a sense of political life...

Trail of the Black Walnut 2d ed.
March 22, 1996... It is almost 40 years since Professor G. Elmore Reaman's book was first published. The second edition, reprinted in 1993, adds new and significant facts, particularly regarding the French Huguenots and Six Nations Indians. Beginning with...