The Loyalist Gazette articles from September 1996

The Loyalist Gazette archives from September 1996

President's farewell: national president's response and farewell remarks (United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada).
September 22, 1996... Your Honour, Members and Guests: In recent years our National Conventions have been held in Lennoxville, Quebec, Ottawa and Toronto, Ontario, and Vancouver British Columbia. This brings to mind our proud Canadian motto `A mari usque ad...

About our new president (United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada).
September 22, 1996... At the Annual General Meeting of the United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada (UELAC) held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 6th to 9th, 1996, Ms. Bernice Flett, UE, was elected National President. She succeeds Mr. Okill Stuart, U.E. Ms....

Loyalist loop: 1996 pre-convention bus tour of the Maritimes.
September 22, 1996... On a sunny Sunday morning in early June two bus loads of enthusiastic tourists departed King's College, Halifax to follow the trails of their Loyalist ancestors. Six miles from the city, on the shores of Bedford Basin we saw the circular, domed...

Loyalist era music CD just released (The better land, by the Elastic Millennium choir).
September 22, 1996... UEL members and guests who attended the closing banquet of the 1996 national convention in Halifax will remember The Elastic Millennium choir which provided the featured entertainment of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century music of...

Newspaper's point of view: a summary of an article in New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, 6/6/1996.
September 22, 1996... The Loyalists' 1996 Convention in Halifax was prefaced by a tour of the Maritimes which included 70 members from Victoria to Halifax. The "Loyalist Loop" started in Halifax and visited historic homes, churches and forts pertinent to the...

Annual general meeting (United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada).
September 22, 1996... This year was a major election year in which a new Dominion president was to be elected to replace the outgoing Okill Stuart, UE. A moment's silence was observed in memory of members, deceased during the previous year. The meeting was...

Bill of sale -- Captain Joseph Brant (3 medallions struck in 1886).
September 22, 1996... Three 1886 bronze, brass, gilt and white metal medallions dedicated to Captain Joseph Brant for the Brant Memorial unveiling of 1886. These three (3) medallions were manufactured by Ellis Brothers of Toronto. The medals all came from...

Loyalist son comes home to Morrisburg: memorial for William Johnson Munro.
September 22, 1996... Henry and Vallena Munro of Washington State have been researching the descendants of Loyalist Capt. John Munro for several years, and in a rare set of circumstances have recovered the remains of his youngest son buried over 175 years ago in New...

God's own island: Man-O-War Cay, Bahamas.
September 22, 1996... Is this the handiwork of the Holy Spirit or just a waking dream of unfathomable strangeness? Such questions will surely beset anyone raised in the Christian tradition who happens to spend a few hours exploring a tiny tropical island on the...

George Washington's life spared: Major Patrick Ferguson's rifle was 100 years ahead of its time.
September 22, 1996... Just before the heavy blows were struck at Brandywine on September 11, 1777, a British officer and his men were concealed on the edge of a woods ahead of a diversionary force led by the 23rd Welch Fusiliers. Unaware, two rebel officers rode...

Revolutionary adventures of a Loyalist Anglican minister: William Duncan of Isle of Wight County, Virginia.
September 22, 1996... In 1775 William Duncan, a Scottish immigrant, began what seemed to be a promising clerical career in southeastern Virginia, but forthwith the Revolution brought it to an end. He attempted to return to Scotland but a British warship captured his...

Branching out: news from the branches (United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada).
September 22, 1996... It's been an exciting time with meetings focusing on the Loyalist Landings. A prelude to Convention 96 was Lois Dickinson's talk "Salute to Shelburne", the 1983 Maritime Tour, continued, the following month with slides from Eleanor Smith,...

Shelburne steps back in time.
September 22, 1996... [Extracted from The Chronicle Herald, 18 July 1996] Shelburne is offering a unique opportunity this summer to take a step back to the American Revolutionary War of 1783 when 10,000 Americans, loyal to the British Crown, fled to Nova Scotia...

Siege of Fort Cumberland 1776: an episode in the American Revolution.
September 22, 1996... Halifax-Dartmouth UEL branch president Ernest Clarke received the Albert B. Corey prize for his book The Siege of Fort Cumberland 1776, an Episode in the American Revolution published by McGill-Queen's University Press. The prize, sponsored by...

Three faces of Molly Brant.
September 22, 1996... Published with the support of the Kingston Historical Society on the 200th anniversary of Molly Brant's death, The Three Faces of Molly Brant by Kingston historian and author Earle Thomas will be published by Quarry Press in October 1996. It is...

Honor bound.
September 22, 1996... In beautiful and easy-to-read prose, this book describes the saga of a United Empire Loyalist family who flee Philadelphia after the American Revolution to settle west of what is now Kingston. "Honor Bound is among the very best historical...

Matter of honour: and other tales of early Perth.
September 22, 1996... Burnstown - A dozen stories from the early days of the Perth settlement delightfully retold by Perth native Susan Code make up the latest release from General Store Publishing House. The old Ontario town has a unique history among Canadian...

Rip Van Winkle.
September 22, 1996... The fiction of Washington Irving, one of the earliest, if not the earliest, successful author in the early United States, contains references to the American Revolution. Although his stories are set some years after that War, a certain...

Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
September 22, 1996... The fiction of Washington Irving, one of the earliest, if not the earliest, successful author in the early United States, contains references to the American Revolution. Although his stories are set some years after that War, a certain...

Hessian diary.
September 22, 1996... A personal viewpoint of the American Revolution is made possible through A Hessian Diary of the American Revolution, by Johann Conrad Dohla, translated, edited and with an introduction by Bruce E. Burgoyne (University of Oklahoma Press,...

Rabble in arms: a rare book of revolutionary times.
September 22, 1996... This is an historical novel which has been reprinted 20 times in the United States since it was first published in 1933. It has printed in braille, translated into 6 different languages and considered an historical narrative of the American...

Music in New York during the American Revolution: an inventory of musical references in Rivington's New York Gazette.
September 22, 1996... Boston: Music Library Association, 1987. (MLA Index and Bibliography Series 24 (xxix, 235 p. ISBN 0-914954-33-4). $15.00. While the cultural life in most American towns diminished significantly during the Revolutionary War, that of New York...

Isabel Louise Hill.
September 22, 1996... Author, former librarian at the New Brunswick Legislature. Born 7 March 1901, in Niagara Falls, Ontario; died 14 Oct. 1996, in Fredericton, aged 95. Isabel Louise Hill was the last person to be listed as "Miss" in the Fredericton phone...