The Loyalist Gazette articles from September 2005

The Loyalist Gazette archives from September 2005

Multiple millers?(Speakers' Corner)(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2005... My husband and I are working on the "Niagara Rivet Parkway Project' for the Colonel John Butler Branch of the UEL. Presently, we are researching Lot numbers 1 through 7 in Niagara Township. This includes the area from the Stamford/ Niagara...

To UELs near and far.(Speakers' Corner)(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2005... I have been an historical reenactor since 1972: fur trader, settler and finally bateauman. I have built six bateaux, all are very much involved in historical reenactments, both civilian and military. Reenactments have become bigger and...

Help a Huck historian.(Speakers' Corner)(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2005... I am an historian with the Culture & Heritage Museums of York County, South Carolina, USA. The CHM is currently working on plans for a 225th Anniversary of the Battle of Huck's Defeat, also known as the Battle of Williamson's Plantation, which...

Who's who? Loyalist Loop, 1996.(Speakers' Corner)(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2005... Dear Loyalist friends and members, Here is an enlarged copy of the photograph of the group who were with us on the Loyalist Loop in 1996. It was taken as we were leaving our last stop on the tour of the University of Prince Edward Island. I...

"A capital experience"--UELAC Conference 2006: experience three days of loyalist fellowship, education and entertainment.(United Empire Loyalists Association of Canada)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Thursday 1 June from 2:00-10:00 pm Welcoming Reception, Speakers, Loyalist displays, sales tables and friends (Branch Genealogists-only workshop 2:30-5:00 pm) Friday: morning seminars: expert genealogists and history specialists. evening:...

Regina--nothin' could be finer: Regina Branch celebrates Saskatchewan Centenary by hosting UELAC Conference 1-5 June.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
September 22, 2005... Delegates from across Canada met in Regina, Saskatchewan for the UELAC 2005 Annual Conference and AGM. The five-day event started on Wednesday, June 1st with registration at the Ramada Inn. A replica cairn, dolls (in period dress, made by the...

From Upper Canada to New Brunswick.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
September 22, 2005... On 16 May 2005, President Doug Grant, Nancy Conn, and Daryl Currie of Governor Simcoe Branch left Upper Canada to attend the UELAC Atlantic-Region Seminar. We were met at the Fredericton airport by our gracious chauffeurs and hosts,...

65th wedding anniversary: Doris and Gar Hindle, 1940--August 12, 2005.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... "The family of Doris and Gar Hindle are proud to announce their 65th wedding anniversary. They were married at the bride's home in Collingwood, Ontario. Still sweethearts today, their romance, nourished by their deep love and admiration for...

UELAC Atlantic Regional Vice-President Frances Morrisey UE, BSc, BEd, M.Ed Saint John, New Brunswick.(People Behind the Scenes)
September 22, 2005... Frances Morrisey's lifelong interest in the Loyalists was inherited from her parents. Relatives on both sides of the family were members of a former incarnation of the New Brunswick Branch, called the New Brunswick Loyalist Society. It was...

Elizabeth Hancocks UE, A.O.C.A., C.G.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
September 22, 2005... Elizabeth Hancocks is the UELAC Dominion Genealogist, having been research genealogist for more than half a century. A graduate of the Ontario College of Arts in 1951, she first became interested in genealogy in 1962 as a result of the...

UELAC honorary vice-president professor Hereward senior, PhD, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.(People Behind the Scenes)
September 22, 2005... I was born on December 22, 1918 in New York City and brought up in Nassau County, Long Island. My mother's family was British, as was my father's father. My father's mother came from old American Colonial stock. After a bout with tuberculosis,...

Additional information about Professor Hereward Senior PhD.
September 22, 2005... Professor Senior has officially retired from McGill University's Department of History only this year [2005], after a career in teaching there spanning some forty-two years. He was the principal author of "The Loyalists." Pioneers and Settlers...

The Bernice Wood Flett loyalist scholarship.
September 22, 2005... A Scholarship awarded by The United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada Scholars Wanted! The UELAC mandate includes the understanding of the role and impact of the Loyalists on our country of Canada. While part of that comes from...

2005 UEL Red Geranium garden in Brandon, Manitoba.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Members of the Manitoba Branch who reside in and around Brandon have volunteered their services to the city's "Communities in Bloom" program for the second year in a row to plant and tend this Red Geranium garden that is located in Princess...

Col. John Butler Parkway.(UELAC projects)
September 22, 2005... The Col. John Butler Branch has undertaken as its 2014 Project the researching of all original Land Grants along the Niagara River Parkway. These properties extend from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. The lots have been mapped and we are attempting...

A tree planting at St. John's Anglican Church.(UELAC Projects)
September 22, 2005... Grand River Branch received a grant from the UELAC to identify Loyalist burial sites in cemeteries within its area with a sign Loyalist Burial Site. St. John's Anglican Woodhouse Cemetery on the outskirts of Simcoe, Ontario, was the first of...

Regina Branch centennial Cairn.(placing of plaques)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... In late July 2003, Logan Bjarnason UE, Regina Branch President, inquired about placing a plaque in the legislative building at Regina to honour the Loyalists who had come to what is now called Saskatchewan. By January 2004, the Government...

City of Peterborough council approves annual flag raising.
September 22, 2005... In 1997, the Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament for Hastings-Peterborough riding, Harry Danforth, introduced a Private Members' Bill in the Legislature designating each June 19th as United Empire Loyalists' Day. The late Paul Clark UE,...

John Cameron Tombstone.(UELAC Projects)
September 22, 2005... Mabel MacLean made it her personal project for 2004 to have a tombstone erected in Salem Cemetery, Summerstown, (one of the oldest cemeteries in the county) for John Cameron UE, her third great grandfather, who died on 10 September 1803....

Wiltse Cemetery.(restoration)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Transforming a piece of cow pasture into a Pioneer Cemetery worthy of a Loyalist family--that was the challenge faced by the Colonel Edward Jessup Branch as they pursued their goal of honouring not only the Loyalists but their grave sites. ...

Loyalist burial site project.(UELAC Projects)
September 22, 2005... Phase 1 of this project has been completed and forwarded to the UELAC branch presidents in a compact disc format consisting of about three hundred and sixty submissions that are indexed and searchable. The project is ongoing and we are...

Milligan Pioneer Cemetery, Sunday, 5 June 2005, dedication ceremony and service, sons and daughters of the United Empire loyalists, Centreville, Ontario.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... A lot of hard work, dedication and planning finally paid off on June 5th at the Milligan Pioneer Cemetery in Centreville, Ontario. According to Patricia Weese, Secretary-Treasurer, everything needed repair. New fencing was installed around the...

Jeremiah French UE honoured.(UELAC Projects)
September 22, 2005... Editor's Note: A biography of "Jeremiah French: Loyalist, Soldier, Farmer" by Shaun Wallace UE can be found on page 28 of this issue. Lieutenant Jeremiah French UE (8 July 1743, Stratford, Connecticut--5 December 1820, Cornwall, Upper...

How loyalist burial project evolved.(UELAC Projects)
September 22, 2005... Last summer, Yorker Shaun Wallace searched Maple Grove Cemetery and found the original marker for Jeremiah French UE lying in pieces half buried in the ground. Shaun approached Gavin Watt, Commander of the KRRNY, and Carol Goddard, President of...

The murder of a loyalist.(The Story of Bartholomew London)(Biography)
September 22, 2005... Born in New Jersey, circa 1730, Bartholomew London made his way in life as a farmer. He had land on Scott's Mountain in Greenwich Township, Sussex County, New Jersey and was the father of six known children. At the outbreak of the American...

The 78th Fraser Highlanders regiment.
September 22, 2005... After two years of planning, the 78th Fraser Highlanders youth squad arrived in Scotland 12 A August 2004, twenty-nine members strong including four soldiers from Toronto's York Garrison, one from the Fort St. Andrew Garrison in Quebec City and...

A Loyalist under the hood!(loyalist flag)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Duncan Armstrong of Wooler, ON has a unique way of displaying the Loyalist flag. It is painted on the underside of the hood of his vintage MGB. Obviously one can only see the flag when the hood is up, As Mr. Armstrong had a highly prized...

2006 fall loyalist Mohawk Valley trip.
September 22, 2005... Don't miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in Mohawk Valley Loyalist history, home to many Loyalist families and a great deal of Revolutionary War military action. From Ottawa and Cornwall on Sunday Oct 1, returning Wednesday Oct 4,...

Jeremiah French: loyalist, soldier, farmer.
September 22, 2005... Jeremiah French is a name we all know or may have heard of, but who was he? Jeremiah French was the largest landowner in Manchester, Vermont (then legally part of the Province of New York and referred to as the 'New Hampshire Grants') when...

The partnership that created Canada: the place of the Loyalists and French Canadians in North American history.
September 22, 2005... Together the French Canadians and the United Empire Loyalists--the losing peoples of the Seven Years' War and the American Revolution--founded Canada. Given this fact, it cannot be seriously argued that either the French culture or monarchical...

Suffering everything but death": Part II: a biography of John Stevens Senior UE.(Biography)
September 22, 2005... Preamble Part One of this article on John Stevens Senior UE was published in The Loyalist Gazette, Volume XLIII, No. 1, Spring 2005, pp. 26-33. "Johannes Stephan" was naturalized on 3 July 1759. A marriage bond for John Stevens and...

Bay of Quinte.(Branch News Highlights)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... On 18 June 2005 the Bay of Quinte Branch and the UEL Heritage Centre & Park held its annual Legacy of Loyal Americans ~ Hall of Honour dinner at Westminster Church in Hastings County. This year's inductees included Gwen Lazier Braidwood, Anson...

Bicentennial.(Branch News Highlights)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Activities Highlights Algonquin Club In March 2005 Kim Hurst UE, Bicentennial Branch Outreach/Education Coordinator, was the guest speaker at the Algonquin Club made up of Canadian and American members. She presented the development of...

Chilliwack.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
September 22, 2005... Our Heritage Week Celebration held on 26 February 2005 focused on two themes: Heritage of Faith: Sacred Buildings and Spiritual Places, and Black History Month. Appropriately, the meeting was held in Carman United Church, a pioneer church in...

Colonel Edward Jessup.(fraternal organizations)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... The 2005 Annual meeting of the Colonel Edward Jessup Branch was held at St. Andrew's United Church Hall in Toledo with President Doug Grant UE giving an excellent presentation. John Gardiner, George Smith and Bonnie Morley received their UE...

Colonel John Butler.(Obituary)
September 22, 2005... We are sorry to report that members Frank Ramsey UE, Peter McGarry UE and Alan Cosby UE have passed away. Our deepest sympathy to their families. President Gail Woodruff presided at our Branch Loyalist Day Flag Raising Ceremony in...

Edmonton.(meetings of fraternal organizations)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Edmonton Branch holds some meetings at the Alberta Genealogical Society. One speaker, archives advisor Michael Gourlie, provided advice about archival storage. Another speaker, Margaret Bendickson, spoke about evidence: sources, types,...

Governor Simcoe.(Branch News Highlights)
September 22, 2005... Our wonderful speakers at regular monthly meetings brought us "Some Deep History" of Toronto, especially the Davenport Road, by Jane Beecroft, a sketch of "Rev. John Stuart" by Rev. Harold Shepherd, and "Over the Don," a history of the east...

Grand River.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Loyalist Day, 19 June 2005, was celebrated at St. John's Anglican Church, Woodhouse, on the outskirts of Simcoe, Ontario. A strawberry social was followed by interesting histories of three Loyalists buried in the nearby churchyard: Abraham A....

Hamilton.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Our Outreach activities over the winter months included participation in the Waterdown and East Flamborough Book Fair a Remembrance Day wreath-laying by Gil Hutton at the Gore Park Cenotaph Ceremonies, a Carlisle Church service and a service at...

Heritage.(fraternal organizations)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... This year the St. Patrick's Day Parade in downtown Montreal took place on 13 March. Our Branch once again entered a float in the parade, giving the Branch the opportunity to celebrate the great Celtic Spring festival and be Irish for the day....

Kingston.(fraternal organizations)
September 22, 2005... By June of this year, Kingston Branch had one hundred and twenty-three members. We were recognized at the UELAC Annual General Meeting as being in sixth place, percentage of improved membership. Four of our members attended the conference in...

Little Forks.(fraternal associations)
September 22, 2005... Local members of Little Forks Branch continue to be quite active. In April, members were honoured at Volunteer Night in Lennoxville and during April and May put great effort into filling two chartered 56-passenger buses to travel to Knowlton to...

Regina.(Branch News Highlights)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... On May 18th, an enthusiastic group of members in period dress were in Regina to greet Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Our view was somewhat hampered as it began to rain and a sea of umbrellas appeared. Although we got thoroughly soaked...

Sir Guy Carleton.(fraternal association presents certificate to Judi Fox-Howes Palmer)
September 22, 2005... Sister receives Loyalist Certificate on Birthday At the spring social of the Sir Guy Carleton Branch, held at the Best Western, Macies, in Ottawa, on 21 April 2005, Catherine Webster presented Judi Fox-Howes Palmer (nee Smith), sister of...

Sir John Johnson.(Branch News Highlights)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Our Branch held their annual meeting on 25 June 2005 in Philipsburg, Quebec. The Legion Auxiliary catered a delicious roast beef dinner for the forty-five members and friends who attended. Fred Hayward, Chairperson of the Dominion Outreach /...

Vancouver.(Margaret Joyce receives United Empire certificate)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Margaret Joyce Tiplady UE received her long sought after UE certificate on 04 June 2005 at the Gala Banquet of the Annual Conference in Regina, SK. Joyce, who has lived most of her life in Vancouver, BC, was born in Moosejaw, SK. It was a...

Victoria.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... In January two more new members joined the Branch in addition to the seven reported in the spring Gazette. During the first six months, six Branch members received certificates. Wilma Saville and Al Huffman took part in a ten-minute...

Stanley Armstrong McBride UE (8 Nov. 1919-23 June 2005).(Obituary)
September 22, 2005... Kawartha Branch is very saddened at the death of one of their longtime Directors who was very proud of his Loyalist ancestor, Sergeant John Howell UE, who settled in Fredericksburgh around 1785, built a windmill near the site of the present...

Gladys Elizabeth (nee Moore) Young UE.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
September 22, 2005... Gladys Elizabeth (nee Moore) Young UE of Caledonia, Ontario, passed away on 1 September 2005 at the West Haldimand Hospital, beloved wife of Stewart Arthur Young UE, loved mother of Bob and Cindy Young, Betty and Paul Yundt, Emily Mae and Lewis...

Bold Brave and Born to Lead, Major General Isaac Brock and the Canadas.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Bold Brave And Born To Lead, Major General Isaac Brock and the Canadas Author: Mary Beacock Fryer UE Toronto: Dundurn Press. 2004. Paperback. 262 Pages. $12.99 Cdn. $9.99 U.S. Mary traditionally provides the reviewer with a pleasant...

The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... The Guns of Independence: The Siege of Yorktown, 1781 Author: Jerome A. Greene New York: Savas Beatie, 2005 Hard cover, 528 pages, 52 photos, 17 maps, 5 appendices, modern photographic gallery, endnotes, index. Forward by Dr....

The Worlds of Joseph Brant.
September 22, 2005... The Worlds of Joseph Brant In late February, TVO (Ontario's public television network) broadcast a show on Joseph Thayendanegea Brant UE as part of their series on prominent Native Americans in Canada. Here are a few brief observations....

Victorious in Defeat: The American Loyalists in Exile.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Victorious in Defeat: The American Loyalists In Exile Authors: Wallace Brown and Hereward Senior Agincourt, Ontario: Methuen Publications, 1984. Hard cover, 230 pages. ISBN 0871969572 This timeless and well-researched history of the...

Rebels & Redcoats, The American Revolutionary War.
September 22, 2005... Rebels & Redcoats, The American Revolutionary War Author: Hugh Bicheno London: Harper Collins Publishers. 2003. Paperback. 310 pages. The author of this unusual book has taken such a maverick approach to the American Revolution, that...

A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic Author: John Ferling Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York, 2003 558 pages Despite being named for a quotation from a Tory ("Civis" Philadelphia, 1776), A Leap in...

Rising Above Circumstances: The Rogers Family in Colonial America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Rising Above Circumstances: The Rogers Family in Colonial America Author: Robert J. Rogers UE Bedford, Quebec: Sheltus & Picard Inc., 1998 Soft cover, 246 pages. This book tells the story of the first two generations of a family...

Certified members update.(United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada)
September 22, 2005... The following received their certification from the UELAC between 02 July 2003 and 19 July 2004. Note: Names have been removed of those who had certificates issued but did not agree to permit publication of their information. However, the name...

Tea at Kingsmere with our Honorary President.
September 22, 2005... On a beautiful Spring Sunday afternoon, Honorary President Peter Milliken hosted guests to tea at Kingsmere, the residence near Ottawa of the Speaker of the House. At the suggestion and guidance of Sir Guy Carleton Branch President Sylvia...

Young Loyalists' page.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2005... Cannon, used in siege warfare such as Yorktown in 1781, could fire 2, 4, 6, 12, 18 or 24-pound * shots. This 6-pound piece of artillery was used in the Battle of Yorktown and was considered to be a light gun. These were assigned in pairs to...