The Loyalist Gazette articles from March 2005

The Loyalist Gazette archives from March 2005

The Loyalist quill.
March 22, 2005... The Loyalist Gazette was originally published from 1931 to 1933. It then lay dormant until E. John Chard UE revived it in 1967 during his term as President of Dominion Council. John was Editor and Business Manager until 1987 when David K....

Westward Ho! To regina 2005: UELAC Conference--June 1-5, 2005 Ramada Hotel, Regina, Saskatchewan.
March 22, 2005... RAMADA[R] HOTEL A block of guestrooms has been reserved under the name of United Empire Loyalists' Association, at a special rate of $89.00 (single/double occupancy) or $99.00 (Includes a full hot buffet breakfast & parking) Standard...

A new contest: "Tory Spy".
March 22, 2005... You are a "Tory Spy" and you're hiding behind the rebel lines. You must get word out to your commander about the Rebel's intentions for victory. But if you are caught with any pro-Loyalist notes on you, the Rebels will hang you for sure for...

Contest winners: "take me to your leader".
March 22, 2005... Here are the winners of, and answers to, our last contest: Ruth M. Bennett, Brighton, Ontario Susan E. Feindell UE, Governor Simcoe Branch, Ontario Mary Van Ryswyk UE, St. Lawrence Branch, Ontario Rev. Dr Marc Smith, Fredericton, New Brunswick...

Boston--the past revisited--the Tory Trail.
March 22, 2005... On 17 June 2004, Myrna M. Fox UE, Frances Morrisey UE and Andrew Gunter UE travelled to the Boston MA area to represent the UELAC and participate in a number of events planned by the Colonial Loyalist Alliance of Massachusetts. Tamsen E....

The flying Loyalist of 1785.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Editor's Note: Newspapers have been known to publish incorrect information, and even when corrections are sent, the papers don't always print the corrections. This is the basis for the following short article. After this appeared, John's...

The hanging of an innocent man.
March 22, 2005... It is the year 1742, Yorkshire, England; a new day begins with the birth of a son, to Mr. and Mrs. James R. Morden. He opens his eyes to a hostile and violent world, of which he would become an unwilling part. Ralph's early childhood was no...

Builders of Canada series: David Thompson & Pierre Berton.(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... David Thompson David Thompson was an explorer, a geographer, a I cartographer and, in his early years in Canada, a fur trader. He was born in London, England in 1770 of impoverished Welsh parents and, after his father's death, attended the...

Guiou.(New York Genealogical and Biographical Record )(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Loyalist Association members with the surname GUIOU in their ancestral lines will be interested to learn of the scholarly study of the Huguenot/ Loyalist family recently completed by Harry Macy, Jr. Editor of the New York Genealogical and...

Honoured Benefactor, Sqd. Ldr. Phillip Edward Meric Leith, D.F.C., C.M.H., UE, M.Sc., B.S.A., B.Com., West Vancouver, British Columbia.(People Behind the Scenes)(Biography)
March 22, 2005... Phillip Leith has lived a full and outstanding life. His family mottoes, "Trustee to the end" and "NON TIMEO SED CAVEO," which translates to "I fear not but I watch out," sum up his approach to life's challenges. Born in Toronto on 19 June...

Prairie Regional Vice-President Margaret A. Carter UE Winnipeg, Manitoba.(People Behind the Scenes)
March 22, 2005... Margaret Aileen Hunt was born in Manitoba and grew up in the Winnipeg Branch of the UELAC, as her father attended its first meeting in 1932. As a child, she performed in costume "Sir Roger de Coverley," an old English dance; and participated in...

Honorary Vice-President Mary Geraldine (Teed) Gillis UE Middleton, Nova Scotia.(People Behind the Scenes)
March 22, 2005... Of UEL descent on three sides, and English on the other, the seventh of ten children of John F. H. Teed and Muriel Wetmore Teed, I was born on August 13, 1921 in the Loyalist city of Saint John, New Brunswick, the oldest incorporated city in...

General Timothy Ruggles UE.
March 22, 2005... General Timothy Ruggles UE was the second most wanted "Tory" during the American Revolutionary War. He was a brilliant man in everything he did, whether it be a lawyer (he was a graduate of Harvard), a soldier, a politician, or an...

Sir Guy Carleton and St. Lawrence Branches present: Loyalist Day Trip to Historic Glengarry in Eastern Ontario.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Saturday, September 17, 2005 Glengarry was first settled by Loyalist Scottish soldiers from The King's Royal Highland Regiment of New York and the Royal Highland Emigrants. Many of these Loyalists or their sons joined the Nor'wester Fur...

The influence of the Printed Word and the displacement of the Loyalists.
March 22, 2005... Loyalists who succeeded in rising through influence, patronage and family connections were rewarded for supporting the monarchial hierarchy of colonial rule in the thirteen colonies. Thomas Hutchinson, who rose through colonial assemblies, had...

"Suffering everything but death": a biography of John Stevens Senior UE.(Biography)
March 22, 2005... John Stevens Senior UE is a fifth great grandfather of Robert Collins McBride. (1) Research on this United Empire Loyalist is still ongoing and so this biography is a work in progress with many still unanswered questions. Little is known about...

Chilliwack.(Branch News Hihglights)
March 22, 2005... Our fourteenth anniversary, which we celebrated with a tea on 25 September 2004, emphasized two themes: "Ivory," which is the symbol for the fourteenth, and "The Acadians, Dispelling the Myth." Selwyn Wesley MacDiarmid UE and Gordon Vance UE...

Col. Edward Jessup.(Branch News Hihglights)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... The Colonel Edward Jessup Branch is very proud to have completed its first 2014 Project with the restoration of the Wiltse Pioneer Cemetery. Thanks to the United Empire Loyalist organization, Athens Township, the executive of the Jessup Branch,...

Col. John Butler.(Branch News Hihglights)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... We are sorry to report that President Gail Woodruff's husband, John McDermott, passed away suddenly in December. Our deepest sympathy to Gail and her family. In January, Sabrina Ford UE, a member of our branch and daughter of Margaret and...

Edmonton.(Branch News Highlights)
March 22, 2005... The Edmonton Branch held two general meetings in the last half of 2004. At the one on September 27 at First Presbyterian Church Fran Losie presented a detailed and interesting report on the Annual Conference in Peterborough. She was the only...

Governor Simcoe.(Branch News Highlights)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... History is everywhere. Our August bus trip presented delights of Norfolk County. Simcoe, named for Governor Simcoe, has many restored buildings. The Eva Brook Donly Museum gave us a family history, a stroll through Norfolk history and a...

Grand River.(Branch News Highlights)
March 22, 2005... Service to outlying cities continued. Classroom Loyalist Studies--Presentations to 3 in Simcoe, 1 in Woodstock, included overheads, costumes of Loyalist children, reading from Sarah's Diary and writing a letter to grandmother with quill...

Hamilton.(Branch News Highlights)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Amidst the Heritage Day Celebrations at Hamilton City Hall on Feb. 19th is the presentation of Hamilton Wentworth Heritage Awards. Hamilton Branch UELAC has nominated two members to receive awards this year: Frank Rupert UE and Martha Hemphill...

Heritage.(Branch News Highlights)
March 22, 2005... Our Charter Night Dinner was held on 3 November 2004 at the Officers' Mess of the Black Watch (RHR) Armoury in Montreal. The guest speaker for this event was Karen Molson. Karen is a direct descendant of the late John Molson, who immigrated to...

Kawartha Branch.(Branch News Highlights)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Our Branch met on November 13 at the Lindsay Golf and Country Club for an afternoon luncheon. Our guest speaker was playwright Ed Shroeter entertaining our members with a talk about dramatizing our Loyalist ancestors. Our Honorary President,...

Kingston and District.(Branch News Highlights)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... On September 28, 2004, the Kingston and District branch held their fall "kick-off" potluck lunch at St. Paul's Anglican Church on Montreal Street in Kingston, Ontario. The Speaker of the House of Commons and our Dominion Honorary...

Little Forks.(Branch News Highlights)
March 22, 2005... Our traditional Christmas meeting included a dinner and raffle for the many prizes donated by local merchants to help defray the costs of maintaining the school and property. We are working hard to save the name "Gilbert Hyatt" on our...

New Brunswick.(Branch News Highlights)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... The annual 2005 New Year's Levee at Saint John's historic Loyalist House was an interesting and colourful affair. Many participants were attired in costumes. The event was hosted by the New Brunswick Historical Society with the assistance of...

Sir John Johnson Centennial.(Branch News Highlights)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... Instead of a guest speaker at the November meeting of Sir John Johnson Centennial Branch, we enjoyed a special treat in listening to our own members recounting short histories about their Loyalist ancestors. Hope Jenne gave an illustrated...

Victoria Branch.(Branch News Highlights)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... At the September meeting a letter from Miss Devon Carter, a University of Victoria history student, was read thanking the Branch for its 2004 Book Prize for History. Harold Morgan UE made a presentation describing his Loyalist ancestors...

Clow, W. Edgar.(Well-Remembered)(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... Peacefully at the Brockville General Hospital on December 19, 2004, William Edgar Clow at the age of 87 years. Beloved husband of Mildred Irene (Parslow) Clow, married 52 years. Dear father of Rod and his wife Teresa, and Meribeth and her...

deWit, Helene UE: 2 November 1933-2 January 2005.(Well-Remembered)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... It is with great sorrow that we have lost a most valued member--Helene deWit. She was born on November 2, 1933 in Winnipeg, MB. Left to cherish her memory are her two daughters, Sandy Peterson and Tricia Wittman; grandchildren Daniel, David and...

Eaman, John A.: 27 January 1914-19 October 2004.(Well-Remembered)(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... John was the youngest of four children, born and raised in the heart of Eastern Ontario UE Loyalist country, near Wales, Dundas County on the St. Lawrence River, and always knew about his Loyalist ancestry. On reaching adulthood he trained...

Havelock, Winnifred UE.(Well-Remembered)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... Winnifred Frances Havelock (nee Smith) Peacefully, on Tuesday, November 2, 2004 at the age of 88, Winnie passed away at home with family at her side after a struggle with cancer. She was predeceased by her father, Leonard, and mother,...

The Ancient Order of Bedelli.(Well-Remembered)(Poem)
March 22, 2005... The Ancient Order of Bedelli Up and down through each Canadian town; the words of Lord? Dorchester did ring. To those citizens all; who harked to the call and joined the cause of the King; Your descendants, with pride,...

McBride, Collins Hillier.(Well-Remembered)(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... ... at Extendicare, Peterborough, on 23 February 2005, age 96 years, 9 months, 18 days. Beloved husband of Helen Robina McBride (nee King) UE. Father of Robert Collins McBride UE, B.Sc., M.Ed., married to Grietje Renskea McBride (nee Purdy),...

Orser, Earl Herbert, C.M., B.Com., F.C.A., L.L.D., UE.(Well-Remembered)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... Respected business and community leader, Earl Orser UE passed away 26 December 2004, in London, Ontario. He was a descendant of Joseph Orser. Earl welcomed challenges and faced them with passion, integrity and humour. Following his...

Fairclough, The Right Honourable Ellen Louks, CC, UE, LLD, FCA, FRCGS, DH, P.C.: 28 January 1905, Hamilton, Ontario--13 November 2004, Dundas, Ontario former Dominion Secretary (1939) and Honorary Vice-President of UELAC.(Well-Remembered)(Obituary)
March 22, 2005... Members of the UELAC were deeply saddened by the death of one of their Honorary Vice Presidents, The Right Honourable Ellen Louks Fairclough, on Saturday, 13 November 2004, in Dundas, Ontario, at the age of ninety-nine. Dearly beloved wife...

The Ideal World of Mrs. Widder's Soiree Musicale: Society identity and Musical Life in Nineteenth Century Ontario.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Ideal World of Mrs. Widder's Soiree Musicale: Society identity and Musical Life in Nineteenth Century Ontario. Author: Kristina Marie Guiguet Gatineau, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2004 Soft cover, 154 pages. This...

Return to Deutschland: A Canadian Family searches for and finds their German Roots some 292 years back in time.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Return to Deutschland: A Canadian Family searches for and finds their German Roots some 292 years back in time. Author: Don Karl Dulmage Belleville: Epic Press. 2004. Soft cover, 190 pages. This is certainly a different book, and...

My Help Comes From Above: the Blakeney/Blakely Family.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... My Help Comes From Above: The Blakeney/Blakely Family Author: Ray Howard Blakeney UE Windsor, Nova Scotia: Ed Martin Printing Limited, 2004 Soft cover, 260 pages. This book tells the story of the Blakeney/Blakely family in the...

The Canadian Don Quixote: The Life and Works of Major John Richardson, Canada's first novelist.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Canadian Don Quixote: The Life and Works of Major John Richardson, Canada's first novelist Author: David Beasley Simcoe Ontario: Davus Publishing, 2004 Soft cover, 314 pages. It was in 1963 when David Beasley located, in the...

The Loyalist Quarterly.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The Loyalist Quarterly Editor: Paul J. Bunnell, FACG, UE 45 Crosby Street, Milford, NH 03055 USA Phone: 603-672-6616 Email: Bunnellloyalist@aol.com URL: http://www.bunnellgenealogybooks.citymaker.com Editor, Paul...

Tools of the Trade for Canadian Genealogy: A Guide for Family Historians in Canada.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Tools of the Trade for Canadian Genealogy: A Guide for Family Historians in Canada Author: Althea Douglas UE, UA, CG(C) Toronto: The Ontario Genealogical Society, 2004 Soft cover, 136 pages. This expanded second edition is a...

Until Next Year: Letter Writing and the Mails in the Canadas, 1640-1830.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Until Next Year: Letter Writing and the Mails in the Canadas, 1640-1830 Author: Jane E. Harrison Hull, Quebec: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1997 Hard cover, 155 pages Imagine sending your message to a loved one far away and...

An Annotated Nominal Roll of Butler's Rangers 1777-1784 with Documentary Sources.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... An Annotated Nominal Roll of Butler's Rangers 1777-1784 with Documentary Sources Author: Lieutenant Colonel William A. Smy, OMM, CD, UE Friends of the Loyalist Collection at Brock University, 2004 Soft cover, 237 pages. When...

Young Loyalists' Page[c].(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005... This page is for Young Loyalists of all ages. Find the writing tools hidden in the ladies' drawing room: * agate stone, used to smooth eraser marks * ink eraser knife, used to cut and scrape mistakes * four light sources *...