The Loyalist Gazette articles from March 2007

The Loyalist Gazette archives from March 2007

Clarification from the editor.(Correction notice)
March 22, 2007... In the Fall 2006 issue, we published a Letter to the Editor in the Speakers 'Corner from Elizabeth Jane Hamilton UE from Caledonia, Ontario, in which she enthused about the content of the Spring 2006 issue and then made comments about the...

Appreciated praise.(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2007... You do a great job on the Gazette. I just received mine this very minute and it is outstanding; I love it. I can hardly wait to sit down with a cup of tea and read it from front to back. Kimberly Hurst UE, Bicentennial Branch The Fall...

Paper on the subject save our heritage in cemeteries.(Letter to the editor)
March 22, 2007... One of the important hallmarks of civilization is preservation or recognition of deceased persons. The customs vary from the most ancient civilizations to modern-day, from the burial sites of the aboriginals through the Egyptian Pyramid to...

Honouring Joseph Brant.(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... This year's 2007 Silver Dollar Coin from the Royal Canadian Mint features the likeness of Loyalist Joseph Brant. The Mint describes Brant this way: Born in Ohio during a tumultuous era that defined North America, Thayendanegea's life was...

UELAC president's message.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
March 22, 2007... While preparing this report early in 2007, I was reflecting on some of the fine people that I have had the pleasure of meeting in the UELAC over the years. Undoubtedly such thoughts were influenced by the passing in December of Elizabeth Rawls...

The UELAC loyalist scholarship.
March 22, 2007... Awarded by The UELAC The George Brown House, 50 Baldwin St. Suite 202, Toronto, ON M5T 1L4 The UELAC Loyalist Scholarship can be awarded to any graduate student who has taken an undergraduate course in Canadian History and who is...

60 years together.
March 22, 2007... Kathleen and Gordon Perry UE celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in Calgary. Gordon, a Past President of the Calgary Branch, is a retired Superintendent of the RCMP and Kathleen, an artist, is one of four sisters who received their UELAC...

Windsor at the of the trail: the 2007 UELAC Conference and AGM.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... Thursday May 31 to Sunday June 3, Holiday Inn Select in Windsor, Ontario Bicentennial Branch is pleased to present a memorable weekend conference featuring the remarkable history of Essex County and Detroit River heritage sites. Book...

Dr. Stephen E. Bolton UE, UELAC Trustee.(People Behind the Scenes)
March 22, 2007... I had the good fortune to be born in the 19th century. Well not really, but my Carleton County, New Brunswick, seemed like it. We lived on a farm that was a 1783 DeLancey Brigade land grant just north of the village of Meductic. I went, for my...

UELAC Honorary Vice-President, Professor Wallace Brown, MA, PhD, F.R. Hist.S., Fredericton, NB.(People Behind the Scenes)
March 22, 2007... As a British history graduate I had barely heard of the Loyalists but, during PhD work at Berkeley specializing in the American Colonial field, that gap was soon rectified. My dissertation subject was the Loyalists, mainly because it combined...

UELAC Honorary Vice-President, Mr. Robert D. Watt UE, FRHSC, MA, Chief Herald of Canada, Ottawa, ON.(People Behind the Scenes)(Biography)
March 22, 2007... Robert Watt UE is currently an Honorary Vice-President of the UELAC and the Chief Herald of Canada, working out of Government House in Ottawa. The Canadian Heraldic Authority, headed by Her Excellency the Governor General, is responsible for...

UELAC members attend the unveiling of the Valiants Memorial.(UEL Projects)(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
March 22, 2007... On 5 November 2006, a cold, wet day, some members of the UELAC attended the unveiling of The Valiants Memorial by Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michelle Jean, Governor General of Canada. The Valiants Memorial is a collection of nine busts...

Garrison Pioneer Cemetery.
March 22, 2007... Chairperson, Charles (Chuck) Ross UE wishes to announce the restoration and preservation of Garrison Pioneer Cemetery as a "Special Project" for Kawartha Branch. For years the Loyalist burial grounds located at Lot 3, Concession 3,...

Sergeant-Major James Caleb Green UE--loyalist.(Biography)
March 22, 2007... How often, when reflecting on the life and times of our Loyalist ancestors who endured the crucible of the American Revolution. have you simply tried to imagine what they looked like? Painted portraits of a few of our Loyalist ancestors do...

2006 Mohawk Valley trip.(HIGHLIGHTS)
March 22, 2007... Loyalists from B.C. to Nova Scotia and from the United States participated in the trip that took place 1-4 October 2006. After the bus crossed the St. Lawrence River, it retraced in reverse the route that Sir John Johnson and his band of...

The loyalists come home to Fairfield: how Fairfield University students discovered a dark page in their local and national history.
March 22, 2007... The Loyalist Project would never have been born at Fairfield University if my wife and I had not spotted the sign for Kings Landing on our way back through New Brunswick to New England last summer. We are veterans of at least a score of...

A family divided by the American Revolution: Sergeant Gabriel Purdy UE of the Guides and Pioneers and Colonel James DeLancey's Regiment.
March 22, 2007... Sergeant Gabriel (5) Purdy UE was part of a group of Loyalists who immigrated to Westchester Township, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia. His story of Loyalist service in the American Revolution exemplifies the courage and risks taken by men...

Upper Canada Land Petition of Isaac Vail UE: one of thirty-two Loyalists who migrated from New Brunswick to Upper Canada.(United Empire)
March 22, 2007... I went back to school after forty-one years in the workforce to obtain my Grade 12 diploma and graduated in June 2004. I learned how to operate a computer and, at the request of my sister, started working on family history. Early in my research...

Bicentennial.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)(United Empire Loyalist Education Program)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... Early in 2006 David Strand of Duval House Publishing Company contacted Kim Hurst UE in regards to our United Empire Loyalist Education Program. They were interested in including it in the new Grade 7 History textbook they were preparing. The...

Chilliwack.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)(United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada)
March 22, 2007... Chilliwack Branch loves to acknowledge and celebrate events! We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Mary Van Home UE of our Leadership Team and to members Marian Reid UE and Irving Reid UE on the occasion of their 60th anniversary! ...

Col. Edward Jessup.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
March 22, 2007... During Heritage Week the Colonel Edward Jessup Branch UELAC and the Tincap Women's Institute teamed up for displays at the Brockville Museum. The Annual Meeting in the spring featured Judge Charles Anderson at an over-flow gathering at the...

Edmonton.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... On 17 June 2006, the Edmonton Branch planted a bur oak tree on the Legislative Grounds of the Provincial Government. This was a project to commemorate the visit of Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of Alberta's 100th birthday. Past President...

Governor Simcoe.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
March 22, 2007... On 26 October 2006, the two hundredth anniversary of the death of John Graves Simcoe, who contributed greatly to the Loyalist cause during the Revolutionary War, and to Upper Canada as its first Lieutenant Governor, ceremonies were held at...

Grand River.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
March 22, 2007... Our education/outreach projects encountered three Grade 7 classrooms in Simcoe. Students experienced Loyalist studies and writing with quill pens, as well as costumed presentations by Marilyn Haslinger and Imogen Givens. Marilyn Branch spoke at...

Halifax-Dartmouth.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... At our AGM, held in Toronto on 3 June 2006, the President of the New Brunswick Branch, Jim MacKenzie UE, made a motion that the Association should donate money to the Black Loyalist Heritage Society. They had lost their building and most of the...

Hamilton.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... This summer, the City of Hamilton carried out a rejuvenation of the UEL monument. On 8 August the monument by Sydney March was lifted from its base for treatment and waxing as part of a new conservation plan for Hamilton's outdoor artwork. The...

Heritage.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
March 22, 2007... Heritage Branch held its annual Charter Night Dinner in Montreal on Wednesday, 1 November 2006, in the elegant and historic Officers' Mess at the Armoury of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada. The attendance numbered...

Kawartha.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)
March 22, 2007... 2006 was a very busy one for Kawartha Branch: meetings, conference, flag raising, Kinmount Fair, fall banquet and, of course, the International Plowing Match. Wow what a year! Once again this year, Kawartha Branch members took over the...

Little Forks.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
March 22, 2007... Members of Little Forks Branch have participated in a number of activities. We prepared the school basement for a special Family Reunion that attracted many new visitors and, while there, they visited the classroom above. All were very...

Manitoba.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada )(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... The Manitoba Branch UELAC held its annual luncheon on Tuesday, 16 January 2007 at the Masonic Temple in Winnipeg. Guest speaker for the event was Mr. William Neville, a Senior Scholar in the Department of Political Studies at the University of...

Sir John Johnson Centennial.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
March 22, 2007... On 12 November 2006 many of our members and friends attended our annual church service. The most inspiring service was held in All Saints Anglican Church in Dunham and presided over by the venerable Wallace Sparling. Following a delicious...

Toronto.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)
March 22, 2007... In addition to our regular Branch meetings with informative speakers, the members of Toronto Branch have been out and about in the GTA. Our regular meetings featured: Ron Dale--Loyalists and the War of 1812; Gavin Watt--Stories of Yorkers; Bill...

Vancouver.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada )
March 22, 2007... Since the publication of the Fall 2006 Loyalist Gazette, the UELAC Vancouver Branch has continued to be very active with regular monthly meetings and activities. Short-term Outreach & Education projects, certification and long-range plans for...

Victoria.(Branch News HIGHLIGHTS)(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... September's meeting was held at the Nellie McClung Library. Eryk Martin, a University of Victoria history student who received the Victoria Branch's Prize in Canadian History, gave a presentation about his research on co-operatives of Vancouver...

Buckingham Palace and Quebec House.(Brief article)(Travel narrative)
March 22, 2007... On 30 November 2006, my wife, Sylvia, and I were invited by the Princess Royal to a reception at Buckingham Palace for the launching of the Kurt Hahn Foundation of my old school, Gordonstoun, in Scotland. HRH, whose two children went to the...

UELAC Honoured Benefactor, Sqd. Ldr. Phillip Edward Meric Leith UE, DFC, CMH, M.Sc., BSA, B.Com.(Obituary)
March 22, 2007... It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Phillip Edward Meric Leith UE, our UELAC Honoured Benefactor, on 14 November 2006, at the Lions Gate Hospital, West Vancouver. Amid floral tributes from his beloved UELAC Vancouver and...

Butler, Charles Lorne UE.(Obituary)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... At Little Current Hospital on Saturday, 20 January 2007 in his 82nd year, Charles Lorne Butler UE. Born in Brantford on 26 October 1925, son of the late Charles and Victoria Butler. Son-in-law of the late Samuel and Ellen Belshaw. Predeceased...

Kerr, Robert Black-Byrne UE.(Obituary)
March 22, 2007... Robert (Bob) Kerr was born on 12 September 1916, in Toronto, Ontario. Bob's family hails from the very early days of the Dominion of Canada, being a member of the United Empire Loyalists. Like so many men of his generation, Bob answered the...

Rawls, Elizabeth Allen (Akin) UE, 1914-2006.(Obituary)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... Elizabeth passed away on 21 December 2006 in Georgia. Wife of the late Charles Alva (Chuck) Rawls Sr., and daughter of the late William O. Akin and Maude Marian Allen, Elizabeth was born 29 October 1914 in Louisville Kentucky but she had some...

Ruch, John Edwin UE, BA, Dip.HA, FRHSC: 1 June 1929-4 February 2007.(Well-Remembered)
March 22, 2007... The United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada lost one of its most dedicated supporters with the passing of Honorary Vice-President John Ruch UE on 4 February 2007. John was born in Willoughby Township, Ontario, in 1929. He was...

Wright, Christopher Cleave UE [honorary]: 1911-2007.(Obituary)(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... Christopher was born in Kamloops on 7 December 1911 and passed away peacefully on 6 February 2007. He was predeceased by his wife Evelyn (Bradley) UE. His four children and seven grandchildren survive Chris. He was involved in education as...

Come home to your loyalist roots.
March 22, 2007... It's 1783 and the brig Thetis and the i ship Nicholas and Jane have landed weary Loyalists at Fort Cumberland. Their homes and possessions in the new United States of America have been confiscated because they were loyal to their British King....

The Price of Loyalty--Great Adventure Series.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Price of Loyalty--Great Adventure Series. Author: George W.J. Laidlaw Publisher: Baico Publishing Consultants Inc., Ottawa, Ontario [c] 2004 ISBN: 1-894494-79-2 Soft cover, 136 pages. $16.95 CAN The genre of this book is historical...

Polly.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Polly By Murray Killman UE Privately published by M. Killman UE, [c] 2002 Hard cover, 215 pages ISBN 0-9694642-2-3 "It is my contention that the stories of United Empire Loyalist struggles should be told and preferably done in such a way as...

Notes from the Underground by the United Empire Loyalists.(Sound recording review)
March 22, 2007... Notes From The Underground by the United Empire Loyalists As a collector of 45s, and a former 1960s teenager, I thought I had a good knowledge of the bands of the later 1960s, but I am not sure if I had ever heard of this Vancouver-based...

Meyers' Rebellion.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Meyers' Rebellion Author: Connie Brummel Crook UE Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Markham, Ontario [c] 2006. Hard copy, 279 pages. It is far easier to review a book on the American Revolution than it is one on the 1837 Rebellion. For the...

A Rebel Redeemed.
March 22, 2007... A Rebel Redeemed Author: Philip B. Turner Published by the Author, P.O. Box [c] 2002, Caribou, Maine 04763, USA. Soft cover. 197 pages. Mr. Turner has to fall into a rather select category of American authors, as he writes books that are...

Reflections of Rebellion: Hours with the Living Men and Women of the Revolution.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Reflections of Rebellion: Hours with the Living Men and Women of the Revolution By Benson J. Lossing The History Press, 18 Percy Street, Charleston, South Carolina, 29403. Phone: 866-223-5778 [c] 2005. Soft cover, 158 pages. ISBN 1-59629-030-7...

Of Lake, Land & River: A Genealogical History of the White Family, 1784-2005.
March 22, 2007... Of Lake, Land & River: A Genealogical History of the White Family, 1784-2005 Author: Jacqueline E. M. Crerar UE Cameron ON. Published by the Author. [c] 2005. Spiral Bound. 232 pages. Amongst the many books I have reviewed over the years,...

Heritage Atlas of Hastings County.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Heritage Atlas Of Hastings County Orland French, Editor Belleville: The County of Hastings. [c] 2006. 240 pages Many researchers have relied on the old 1878 Atlases that covered the counties of Ontario. In a sense this new book by Orland...

The Hay Bay Guardian, vol. 14.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... The Hay Bay Guardian, Volume 14. ([c] 2006) Editor: Rev. J. William Lamb The Trustees of Old Hay Bay Church, National Historic Site of Canada, Adolphustown in Greater Napanee, ON The Loyalist Gazette has featured reviews of Rev. Lamb's book...

Young Loyalists--a page for every age [c].(Brief article)
March 22, 2007... The Saint John River Boat was a familiar sight two hundred years ago when the Saint John River was the only means of transporting bulk cargo inland to settlers upriver. The boat's design originated in New England in pre-revolutionary times and...