The Loyalist Gazette articles from September 1997

The Loyalist Gazette archives from September 1997

UELAC Conference, Winnipeg 1997.
September 22, 1997... The conference took place at the Viscount Gort Hotel, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 5-8, 1997. There were 83 registrants, with 27 branches represented. One hundred sat down to the final banquet. It commenced with the Thursday evening "Get...

Loyalist soldier display at Adolphustown (Loyalist Cultural Centre).
September 22, 1997... As you look out from Adolphustown Park, over the rough waters of Lake Ontario, it is easy to picture the Loyalist boats making their way to shore. Men, women and children, who experienced years of hardship in the King's service, watch eagerly...

1998 Fall Loyalist Mohawk Valley trip.
September 22, 1997... by George Anderson, Editor, St. Lawrence Branch News Sir Guy Carleton Branch of Ottawa and St. Lawrence Branch are undertaking to lead a four-day 1998 Loyalist Fall Trip to the Mohawk Valley on October 2, 3, 4, 5, 1998. It will be dedicated...

Bliss Civil War 1775-1783: a family divided.
September 22, 1997... by Charles E. Cartmel, UE Prologue The most significant battle of the eighteenth century took place in 1759. Its success and aftermath resulted in the American Revolution. It removed all threat from the north and any further need for...

Loyalist Cunards.
September 22, 1997... by Lieutenant Colonel WA Smy, OMM, CD, UE The stories of Loyalists re-establish ing themselves in Canada after the American Revolution are legion. One family, though, is an exceptional example of entrepreneurial success--the Cunards of New...

Elizabeth Bowman Spohn.
September 22, 1997... Submitted by Paul T. Harris, UE, member of Hamilton Branch I was recently delving through some family memorabilia concerning my UEL lineage and came across a fascinating letter from an ancestor, Elizabeth Bowman Spohn, dated July 23rd,...

Philip and Elizabeth Sheaver, Loyalists.
September 22, 1997... Born 12 July 1731 (1) in Nassau, Germany, Philip Sheaver emigrated to America. Passenger and immigration lists show that he signed his declaration of allegiance to King George at Philadelphia in 1754. His claim for compensation for war losses,...

Cannon manned by rival nations: five different flags have flown over Pensacola Bay's forts.
September 22, 1997... [Editor's Note: Extracted from Military History magazine, August 1988] Spanish soldiers sweated in the humid heat of their Florida colony as they hauled cannon up to gun emplacements newly constructed on the sandy heights overlooking the...

Washington wooed a Loyalist.
September 22, 1997... "George Washington Wooed Mary Phillipse Robinson -- a Loyalist", a chapter from Pioneer Profiles of New Brunswick Settlers [The following chapter is from a book submitted by Wallace P. MacMurray, of the New Brunswick Branch. It was written...

Researching for my novels.
September 22, 1997... "You found it!" I shouted with joy, forgetting that I was in the middle of a graveyard -- Carrying Place Cemetery in Prince Edward County, Ontario. To my great relief, the only living person in sight was my husband. He had just discovered the...

Red River cart and other historic bits.
September 22, 1997... Controversy started about carts and wagons when we used a Conestoga Wagon (pictured) for a notice about the Winnipeg Convention, instead of the proper Red River Cart (with two large wheels). You'll also find a few other facts which we've dug up...

Benjamin Fairchild(, sr), UE.
September 22, 1997... [Extracted from Fidelity, Toronto Branch newsletter] While Benjamin Fairchild is ostensibly the focus of this article, the range is a bit wider, taking in other Fairchilds and including more on the Nelles family. Indeed, this could be seen...

Branching out (review of activities of various branches of the United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada).
September 22, 1997... Bay of Quinte Branch ROBERT WENDELL CAMM 1919-1997 Robert Wendell Camm UE, President of the Bay of Quinte Branch from 1982-1984, died suddenly in London, Ontario on 21 May 1997 at the age of seventy-eight. An ardent genealogist, he...

King's library is history (collection of King George III at British Museum to be dispersed).
September 22, 1997... by Michael Johnson, Assistant Editor There are two ways to interpret that headline and both are correct. In the "Contest Section" you may read about the historical aspect of the Library as it relates to books donated by King George III....

King's Royal Regiment of New York history (author to republish revised Master Muster Roll).
September 22, 1997... Many Gazette readers will recall the republishing by the St. Lawrence Branch in 1984 of Brig. Gen. Ernest Cruikshank's history of the King's Royal Regiment of New York which first appeared in 1931 in the Papers & Records of the Ontario...

Loyalists - Hodenausaunee - Brantford's sesquicentennial.
September 22, 1997... The thick white smoke rose and dissipated into the air as the crack of a hundred muskets echoed throughout the downtown core. This signalled the end of one celebration and the short but colourful and diverse parade towards another. ...

Illustrated history of Canada.
September 22, 1997... Edited by Craig Brown. Picture Editor Robert Stacey When this work first appeared in hard cover in 1987, it was well received. For this third edition, in paperback, it scarcely needs an introduction. Under Craig Brown, five...

Life and religion at Louisbourg 1713-1758.
September 22, 1997... A.J.B. Johnston Here is an entirely different approach. While The Illustrated History of Canada is a massive survey, Louisbourg is a detailed study of one aspect of the story of the great fortress. Johnston, himself a staff historian at...