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Annual Conference to be held June 24 - 28, 2020 at the Delta Marriott Hotel in Winnipeg, MB. In closing, I thank all of you for your loyal support in keeping the Colonel John Butler (Niagara) Branch the best of the UELAC. It's been my sin-cere pleasure and honour to serve as your branch president the past two years and I will endeavour to do my best as co-president with Fred Grego-ry in the year ahead. Loyal Regards, Dale Flagler UE
A Happy New Year to all our loyal members and a big thanks to Paul Preece UE (our new webmaster) and Bob Kyle UE as they fire up our long dormant newsletter. Looking ahead into the future of the Branch for the 2020 year, I foresee a new dawning for us and an opportunity to get back into the flow of activities of the UELAC Dominion. I was very concerned to-ward the end of the past year that we would have no volunteers to assume the key positions of the executive within our branch. Fortunately, sev-eral brave volunteers stepped forward to take on the leadership of the Colonel John Butler (Niagara) Branch. Fred Gregory as co-president and Doug Hicks UE as vice-president will do a fine job in those roles.
With David Fowler UE as treasurer, Bev Craig UE as acting secretary, Wendy Broda UE as genealogist and membership chair, Carol Clifford UE our past president plus directors Eugene Oatley UE, Paul Preece UE and Janet Hodgkins UE, we have a winning executive board with a wealth of experience at hand. Janet will continue her duties as program chair - capturing high quali-ty guest speakers for your interest. Carol will be tak-ing over the luncheon invi-tations and restau-rant reservations. I look forward to working with our newest exec members as well as those members that have been in the Butler branch for years. It should be a great year ahead and I would encourage all our branch members to attempt to at-tend the exciting UELAC
President’s Pen
Newsletter Date January 2020
Inside this issue:
Executive 2
2020 Dominion Conference
3
New UELAC Member Site
3
UE Certificates 4
Writings From Upper Canada
5
UEL Ancestors 5
Scholarship Fund 6
TenBroeck Loyal-ist Plaque
6
Last Post 7
Charles Green DNA
8
UELAC Crossword
10
Meetings-Speaker’s Corner
11
U n i t e d E m p i r e L o y a l i s t s ’ A s s o c i a t i o n O f C a n a d a
January 2020
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UELAC Annual Conference - June 24 - 28, 2020
Hosted by the Manitoba Branch Winnepeg, Manitoba
See page 3 for details...
Discover Your Roots:
“Be part of the group that had significant impact on the shaping of our country in its relatively early days. “
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Position Name Email
Co-President Dale Flagler UE [email protected]
Co-President Fred Gregory UE [email protected]
Vice President Doug Hicks UE [email protected]
Past President Carol Clifford UE [email protected]
Treasurer David Fowler [email protected]
Secretary (Interim) Bev Craig UE [email protected]
Director/Program Janet Hodgkins UE [email protected]
Membership/Genealogist
Wendy Broda UE [email protected]
Director Eugene Oatley UE [email protected]
Director/Website/Newsletter
Paul Preece UE [email protected]
Assistant N. Editor Bob Kyle UE [email protected]
Flag Bearer David Ellsworth UE [email protected]
2020 ~ CJB Executive and Chairs
The Right
Honourable Pierre
Elliot Trudeau:
“The United
Empire Loyalists
… built, not only
a life, but a
country; one
whose traditions
are founded in
part on those the
Loyalists brought
with them.” 1983
Newsletter - Submit ideas for future editions, contact Paul Preece UE or Bob Kyle UE
UELAC Merchandise
Check out the new 1812 Family Name Ribbon and the updated computer bag!
These items and many more can be found at:
http://www.uelac.org/promotion/catalogue.php#Clothing
You can also contact Patricia Groom UE directly at: [email protected]
Help make the newsletter successful Share your history and ideas for topics you would like to read about!
We can assist you in writing articles, and sharing photos!
Next Edit ion wi l l be August 15, 2020
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UELAC Annual Conference - June 24 - 28, 2020 According to
Lonely Planet:
“Manitoba is, quite literally, at
the centre of everything. It’s
the geographical middle of Canada
and a crucial point of
encounter; the ancient
Aboriginal people would trade their wares at what is now Winnipeg’s downtown core.
The capital city has retained its multicultural
flavour.”
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Email: [email protected] (ask to join our Conference News mailing list)
Follow on twitter: @UELMB2020
Phone: (204) 514-4604
Web: uelmanitoba.ca or Dominion: uelac.org
Renew Your Membership For 2020
NEW: Renew online at
https://uelac.ca/
Set your password. Log in. Renew.
2020 Membership - Renew or JOIN
YOU have options: 1. Join or renew online at https://www.coljohnbutler.com/membership.html
• Print the membership form and mail, with cheque, to Branch address. 2. Bring filled out form and cheque to the monthly Branch meeting at Betty’s Restaurant.
OR
New this year! You may also want to RENEW your membership using the new UELAC portal below.
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Some of the UE Certificates Awarded in 2019
Helen Kozun-Young UE with Rod Craig (late), Genealogist, accept-ing her Loyalist certificate for her ancestor James Stewart UEL.
Bill Stewart UE, with Dale Flagler UE and Wendy Broda UE, ac-cepting his Loyalist certificate for
his ancestor Bryan Lafferty Stewart UEL.
Mackenzie Kozun-Young UE with Rod Craig (late), Genealogist, ac-cepting her Loyalist certificate for her ancestor James Stewart UEL.
Stephen and Christopher Packham UE receiving certificates for their ancestors John Lymburner UEL, Mathew Lymburner UEL, Margaret Lymburner UEL, Isaac Lounsbury UEL, John House UEL, Frederick Anger UEL, Benjamin Fralick UEL.
W. Bruce Wallace UE with Rod Craig (late), Genealogist, receiving his Loyalist certificate for his an-cestor Col. John Butler UEL.
Bob Kyle UE with Rod Craig (late), Genealogist, and Joe Kyle, receiv-ing his Loyalist certificate for Charles Green UEL.
Joe Kyle (left) accepting for his son Don Kyle UE, with Dale Flagler UE, President, Wendy Broda UE, Ge-nealogist, and John Kyle UE re-ceiving their Loyalist certificate for their ancestor Charles Green UEL.
Rod Craig (late), Genealo-gist, with Harvey Packham UE, father of Stephen and
Christopher listed above, receiving certificates for the same ancestors.
W. Bruce Wallace UE (left) beside his cousin Gary Butler UE, Gary's grandson Ryan McDowell
UE and Gary's daughter Deborah McDowell UE. The McDowells and Gary Butler are receiving their certificates for their ancestor Col. John Butler UEL.
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Niagara Historical Museum Collection
Being quite well-read, he would teach the neigh-bouring children and eventually open the first school house in the area. This area was classified as Township No. 1 in 1789.2 During this time, Francis Goring would write about both family matters and community events. In one of his arti-cles, he wrote about the “drought in the spring of 1791” where many neigh-bours would lose property to fires that broke out in the area. In the journal entry at-tached, he writes “A vio-lent Hurricane happened this day about 2 & 3 o’clock in the afternoon which began at the little lake at the head of Lake Ontario which drove such violence towards Lake Erie has left hardly a tree standing for two miles in width. The heaviest part fell among the Short Hills, between the Fifteen and Thirty Mile Creeks.” He goes on to talk about the uprooting of trees “some fifty trees a foot…” and the rain and hail that came with it “hail was as
It was the summer of 1792, Sunday, July 1st, 1792 to be exact. This is possibly one of the oldest records in the archives for Upper Canada that tells the story of our first en-counter with a Tornado.1
Francis Goring, my fifth great grandfather, wrote many letters and journals about his experiences and hardships after the Revolutionary war. He was given a land grant on the west side of the Niag-ara River and took up farming with his wife Lucy Secord (daughter of Peter Secord Sr. UEL).
large as a man’s fist.” Not only did it uproot trees but homes were also damaged or com-pletely destroyed “every house disroofed and many blown down…” Sometimes, we take things for granted with the luxury of having modern machinery and tools to help us cope with disas-ters. Here he writes, “The woods now is ren-dered impassable ‘til roads can be cut through.” It would take forty men, three days to get five families and “their cattle” out from the dev-astation. In the end, only cattle were lost. This was just one exam-ple of some of the journal entries that were made by Francis Goring over the years. He passed away in 1842 at the age of 87 and is buried in the Homer Cemetery, Niaga-ra-On-The-Lake, Ontario. By: Paul Preece UE
Writings From Upper Canada
Niagara Historical Museum Collection
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Certificates Presented for Ancestors in 2019
John House Joseph Lemon Isaac Lounsbury John Lymburner Margaret Lymburner, Mathew Lymburner William McClellan Leonard Misener Henry Putman Christian Riselay
Frederick Anger Jacob Anguish George Adam Bowman Col. John Butler Joshua Currie John Darby Benjamin Fralick Charles Green Jonathan Greenlaw James Heaslip
Bryan Lafferty Stewart James Stewart Hannah Sypes Irish John Wilson Henry Windecker Adam Young Daniel Young Jacob Young
56 new certificates were presented during the year for the following UEL Ancestors
1 Niagara Historical Society (From Ontario Archives) 2 Friends of The Loyalist Collection - Brock University:
Francis Goring’s Journals
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TenBroeck Family - Loyalist Plaque Ceremony
In a recorded transcription from the 1960’s, the Buri-al Ground listed the five monuments for four gen-erations of the TenBroeck family. One of the first names listed was that of Captain Peter TenBroeck. He was granted Lots 21 and 22 of Concessions I and II in Grantham follow-ing the Revolutionary War.
W. Bruce Wallace was part of the unveiling of the Loyalist plaque at the Ten Broeck Family Cemetery. The site is located on Concession 3 Lot 22 Grantham Township and is an inactive single family cemetery. There are no visible stones at the site but it is recorded as hav-ing five monuments for five individuals buried between 1804-1851.
The Loyalist Plaque was placed on this site to hon-our his dedication and loyalty to help shape our country.
UELAC Scholarship Fund
A letter was received by the Col. John But-ler (Niagara) Branch on October 29, 2019 from Bonnie L. Scheppers UE. Bonnie is the Chair for the UELAC Scholarship Com-mittee. She writes “It is my pleasure to extend thanks on behalf of the UELAC scholarship committee for your generous financial sup-port to our ‘40 Days of Giving’ challenge. By July 1, $10,350.01 had been donated to scholarship, exceeding our target by over $2000. In addition, we were honoured to accept several individual memorial gifts to the Scholarship Endowment Fund. Thank you!” She enclosed the “Certificate of Appreciation” for our continued support of the program. It is with great pleasure that we accept this letter and the appreciation that has been presented to us from the Committee. We can only hope with our Branch’s continued generosity, the Fund will continue to grow for future recipients.
influence on Canada. The award is for $2500 per year and, on approval, will be provided for each of two years for Masters and three years for PhD students.
The UELAC Loyalist Scholarship is available to Masters and PhD students undertaking a program in research that will further Canada’s understand-ing of the Loyalists and our apprecia-tion of their immediate descendants’,
For further details and the application requirements, visit: www.uelac.org
The deadline for applications is 28 February 2020.
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Rodney “Rod”
Thomas Craig (07 May 1935 – 26 May 2019)
On 26 May 2019, the
UELAC lost a most valued
member, Rodney Thomas
Craig. While not of Loyalist
descent himself, Rod’s in-
terest in and dedication to
Canadian genealogy
helped hundreds of others
prove lineage back to the
refugees of the American
Revolution.
Rod and his wife, Beverly,
became members of the
Col. John Butler (Niagara)
Branch in the late 1980’s.
By 1994 he assumed the
role of Branch Genealogist
and maintained that posi-
tion until the spring of 2019.
One of the first certificate
applications that he submit-
ted was for the Loyalist,
Joseph Wardell UE, issued
on 04 June 1995.When he
was not focused on the
needs of his fellow Branch
Members, Rod assisted
with the Loyalist lineage
certification of royalty
(Camilla, Duchess of Corn-
wall, 2009) and Canada’s
last WW1 veteran (John F.
Babcock, 2009). Rod will be
greatly missed by all who
knew him. He was an Asso-
ciation Genealogy legend in
his own time. Rod, along
with his wife Beverly Craig
UE, loved helping members
attain their goals of receiv-
ing UELAC certificates. His
selfless service and dedica-
tion will never be forgotten.
In 2002, Rod was proud to
be recognized as a member
of the Most Honourable
Order of Meritorious Herit-
age. In addition to his local
and Dominion Genealogy
efforts, the jury acknowl-
edged his work for the 1993
UELAC Conference in Ham-
ilton, the 1996 Butler Bicen-
tennial Celebrations, and
the 2000 Conference, host-
ed by his Branch in Niagara
Falls. If the list of his
achievements were to be
updated today, it would in-
clude his work as a Director
and Chair of the Friends of
the Loyalist Collection at
Brock University, Member of
the Dominion Promotions
Committee, as well as his
considerable involvement
with the Ontario Genealogy
Society’s Niagara Peninsula
Branch.
Born in Crowland, Ontario,
on 07 May 1935, Rod spent
most of his life as a resident
of Ridgeville and Welland,
developing interests in fish-
ing, family history, the Ham-
ilton Hunt Club, and fixing
things in general. It was
said that bringing people
together to share good
times was very important to
Rod wherever he went but,
when parting, he always
wished everyone to “take it
easy”.
From: The Loyalist Gazette
Fall 2019
Last Post - Memories To Cherish
We would also like to recognize the passing of Robert Wylie UE. Robert was a strong supporter of the Branch and will be missed. As well, James Robertson and William Smy UE (past member) passed away in 2019. The Branch would also like to acknowledge the passing of Eugene Oatley’s wife, Pat. She passed away in February of 2019.
“You are rooted deep within our souls. A part of us forever. In the deepest parts of our hearts. There you are.”
Last Post - In Our Thoughts and Prayers
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Charles Green UEL - The Truth in DNA
sites show this relation-ship has been copied many times.
The Judge Green legacy in Ewing is well docu-mented and compelling. For example, there are streets named after Green, the William Green house built in the 1700’s located on the College of New Jersey campus, sports fields named Green fields. The First Presbyterian Church of Ewing cemetery is the judge’s final resting place, and many other related Green’s. This may have led researchers to as-sume there was a rela-tionship of the Ewing Greens with Charles Green. Researchers fur-ther concluded that John had moved from the Ewing/Amwell area to northwest New Jersey at some point.
Mountain Lake near Ox-ford, NJ (in prior years known as Green’s Pond) is where Charles’ family lived. The lake is 75 km (46 miles) straight north from Ewing, following an old trail from Trenton through Ewing to Oxford. John Green could have migrated north to take advantage of the open space for his own family and to join other family members.
Much has been written
about the United Empire
Loyalist Charles Green
who walked with his fami-
ly from Oxford, New Jer-
sey in 1786 to settle in
Stamford (Niagara Falls).
The NW region of NJ was
home to many Loyalists,
including Lieutenant
James Moody who pub-
lished an account of the
American Revolution, led
many raids, sailed to Eng-
land to plead for reim-
bursement for the Loyal-
ists, and was referred to
as ‘that villain Moody” by
George Washington.
Documents prove that Charles Green’s father was John Green, and it has been suggested that John is the son of Judge William Green of Ewing, NJ. The connection to William Green is taken for granted by the authors Watson Kirkconnell. A search for Charles Green UEL on genealogy web-
The problem with the sug-gested relationship be-tween Judge William Green and John Green is that it is unsupported by evidence. The relationship of John Green and his son Charles Green UEL with today’s descendants is
well documented.vii
The fact that Judge William Green had a son named John is also document-ed.
viii The unanswered
question: Is Judge Wil-liam Green John Green’s father and therefore Charles Green’s grandfa-ther?
How to prove whether William is or is not the father of John Green? It was decided to use a DNA test as the only method that could pro-vide proof one way or the other.
There are three types of DNA tests available, Y-DNA (Y being the male chromosome), mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) and autosomal DNA. Y chro-mosomes are passed from father to son allow-ing males to trace their relationship by comparing Y-DNA. Women do not have Y chromosomes, but everyone has mtDNA, passed from a mother to her children, so both males and females can take the mtDNA test. Everyone can take an autosomal test since eve-ryone has autosomal chromosomes; however, the results won’t include haplogroups inherited down a single line of de-scent. Test results of Y-DNA with identical hap-
CHARLES GREEN 1740-1827 ~ UNITED EMPIRE LOYALIST “IF THE CAPTAIN WANTS ME. HE MAY COME HIMSELF AND IF HE DOES I WILL SHOOT HIM.” WITH THESE WORDS. CHARLES GREEN REFUSED INDUCTION INTO THE N. JERSEY REBEL MILITIA. IMPRISONED. HE ES-CAPED AND JOINED THE “KING'S RANGERS”. A LOYALIST UNIT. HE “SUFFERED VERY CONSIDERABLY BOTH IN PERSON AND PROPERTY”. AT WAR'S END HE WALKED FROM N. JERSEY LEADING HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN ON HORSEBACK. HIS WIFE REBEKAH. BURIED NEXT TO HIM. GAVE BIRTH EIGHT DAYS LATER TO A DAUGHTER. THE FIRST WHITE CHILD BORN ON THE FRONTIER HE DONATED THESE LANDS. PART OF A GRANT FROM GEORGE III TO THE METHODIST
Fig. 2 Memorial erected along
Lundy’s Lane, Niagara Falls, ON ii
Fig. 3 1852 Warren County map
of ‘Green’s Pond’ near Oxford showing the homesteads of Morris
and Reuben Green. vi
Fig. 4 Road Sign near Mountain Lake
Fig. 5 Mountain Lake, winter 2019
Fig. 1 Memorial erected along
Lundy’s Lane, Niagara Falls, ON ii
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logroups show that two individuals potentially have general common descent.
We are interested in Y-DNA because it will an-swer the question of a male Green relationship, from a living Green male descendent to either Wil-liam Green of Ewing or a different Green from NJ. FamilyTree was the com-pany selected to perform the Y-DNA test.
At the time, the only living male Green relative we knew was Mike Green, son of Alan Green from Welland, Ontario. We know the relationship from Mike Green back to Charles Green UEL and his father John. All of the deceased men are buried in the Niagara Falls area, several in Doan’s Ridge cemetery, one in Drum-mond Hill cemetery and Charles in Lundy’s Lane cemetery. Charles’ father John is presumed to be buried somewhere close to Green’s Pond. John died in 1783, three years prior to Charles family walking to Canada.
Mike was willing to swab
his cheek for DNA and a
few weeks later the re-
sults arrived. We now
have DNA proof that the
Greens descended from
Charles Green in the Ni-
agara region are not de-
scended from Judge Wil-
liam Green in Ewing, New
Jersey. The results show
distinctly different haplog-
roups between Mike (and
therefore Charles Green
UEL) and Judge William
Green. The two Green
families are completely
unrelated as shown by
the haplogroups, I-M253
not only for the male de-
scendants of Charles
Green, but for the male
descendants of Samuel
Green Sr. of Johnson-
burg, NJ as well, whereas
the haplogroup for the
male descendants of the
Greens of Ewing, NJ is R-
M269.
The results also show
that, without a doubt,
Mike and the other de-
scendants of Charles
Green are in the same
Next steps: Determine relationship from Charles’ father, John Green, to Samuel Green. No clear and simple paper trail linking them has been found. There are records of a land transfer from Samuel Green’s brother, George Greenix, to Charles’ father John, but nothing definitive as yet to explain how they are related.
Special thanks to my par-
ents, Joe and Dolores
Kyle (nee Green) for in-
spiration to learn about
the Green history. Mary
Lubell and H Grant
Timms UE, for explaining
the DNA test results, and
contributing to this article.
Mike Green for providing
the key Y-DNA.
Robert Kyle UE is a
descendent of Charles
Green UEL.
By: Bob Kyle UE
haplogroup as Samuel
Green, Sr. The two
branches of the Green
family have generally
identical Y-DNA, with pos-
sibly one STR marker dif-
ference, and are therefore
closely related with mini-
mal mutation over the last
300 to 400 years. There-
fore, the Greens in the
Niagara region, descend-
ants of Charles Green
UEL, are related to the
Greens in the Grimsby,
Stoney Creek and
Greensville area of Ontar-
io, descendants of Samuel
Green (including the well-
known character Billy
Green the scout from the
Battle of Stoney Creek).
A lot is known about Sam-uel Green Sr. and his sons, two of whom (Adam and John) migrated to Canada and were United Empire Loyalists. The con-firmed relationship makes sense due to the close proximity of locations in NJ between Samuel Green’s sons and Charles Green, and also the multi-ple Loyalists in both branches of the family.
i The Narrative of Lieutenant James Moody printed in London in 1783, 11304-Article Text-15293-1-10-2009046.pdf
ii
See http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Monuments/Charles-Green-Memorial.php iii Will of John Green of Oxford, - (West Jersey Wills Liber 26, page 156). John’s will was proved 2nd November 1784 and names sons Charles, Reu-
ben and Morris, daughter Phoebe and wife Hannah. iv Watson Kirkconnell, Climbing the Green Tree and Some Other Branches, privately printed, Wolfville, NS, 1976, page 13 (individual 56, identified as
John Green vii). v For example, http://williamgreenhouse.org/green_family/gen/john.html and https://sites.google.com/site/niagarasettlers/ontario-pioneers/settlers-g vi See https://library.princeton.edu/njmaps/counties/warren.html D. McCarty. "Map of Warren County, New Jersey" (Philadelphia: Friend and Aub,
1852) [Library of Congress]. Wall map, with ornamental border and added color, 128 × 100 cm. Scale: 60 chains to 1 inch. vii Eli F. Cooley and William S. Cooley, Genealogy of Early Settlers In Trenton and Ewing “Old Hunterdon County” New Jersey, W.S.Sharp Printing Co.,
1883, page 79. John is the only son for whom there is no further information, implying an early death. William’s son Isaac did move to northwest New Jersey, and that move is recorded by the Cooleys.
viii See https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Green?iframe=yresults ix Land owned by George Green since 1725 (West Jersey Surveys, C-244, Vol. M-57, Lib.11, page 57; dated 24th January, 1725, New Jersey Ar-
chives). That this lans passed to John is also shown by WJ Loose Records: 20th April, 1763 - Coxe, William (OV-A) (39791) (PWESJ004) and stated again in an indenture of 5th March 1798, noting that this tract of land “descended” to John Green (see document C-244). George Green had previ-ously lived near Samuel Green Sr. in Amwell, was closely associated with him and is believed to be Samuel’s brother.
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Across Down
1. Small vessel often used to transport Loyalists on rivers
3. Canadian city where Molly Brant and some of her children settled after the war
4. Monarch that Loyalists stayed Loyal to 5. City evacuated by Loyalists November 25, 1783 7. Well known Mohawk military and political leader 12. Conferred postnominal for Loyalists and their de-
scendants 13. War Loyalists fought in 14. Also known as Lord Dorchester 15. A Loyalist, British provincial military unit raised by
John Butler 16. Document signed to end American Revolution 17. Largest settlement of Black Loyalists settled in
1783 18. Haldimand succeeded Guy Carleton as Governor of
Quebec 19. Full name of the 1st virtual branch of UELAC 21. Alternate term for Loyalists at time of American
Revolution 22. Raised the King’s Royal Regiment of New York (KRRNY)
1. One of bloodiest battles of the American Revolu-tion that took place August 6, 1777 in Province of New York
2. German soldiers who served as auxiliaries to the British Army during the American Revolution
6. Alternate term to Loyalist hint: position of the per-son they followed
8. Home of Sir William Johnson and Molly Brant in the Mohawk Valley
9. Chief Physician & Director General of Continental Army who was caught spying for the British
10. Province where majority of Loyalists fled to 11. American military commander who went on to fight
with British 20. The postnominal used by Loyalist descendants
Answers will be posted at the April 4th Meeting or on the CJB Website in May.
Created by Puzzlemaker at DiscoveryEducation.com
The United Empire Loyalists
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March 7, 2020 ~ Dr. Richard Merritt UE - The British Indian Department: Undaunted Loyalty. The British Indian Department was established in 1755 by the British Crown as a quasi-military organization dedicated to maintain the Silver Covenant Chain of Friendship and the well-being of its Indigenous Allies in North America. Although some of the senior personnel used their position for personal gain, the employees of the Department fought valiantly alongside their ‘Native Allies’ in three major wars. Many United Empire Loyalist descend-ants, now citizens of the province of Ontario, can proudly trace their ancestry to the officers and men of this storied corps.
February 1, 2020 ~ Dr. Adam Shoalts - Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada’s Arctic
Professional adventurer and explorer Adam Shoalts returns to Chip-pawa to speak to the UEL again, this time about his epic 4,000 kilome-tre journey by canoe and on foot alone across North America’s great-est wilderness, the Arctic.
Adam will share pictures from his incredible adventure. Copies of his brand new book (currently a national best-seller), Beyond the Trees, will be available for sale. He is also the author of the #1 best-sellers Alone Against the North and A History of Canada in 10 Maps.
April 4, 2020 ~ Clark Bernat - Niagara Maps: The Stories They Tell.
We all use maps for many historical purposes. For this talk, Clark Bernat will explore some well-known maps (and maybe some not so well-known) and explore stories that you may not have known about them or aspects that he finds fascinating to our knowledge of early Niagara.
Clark Bernat is the Culture and Museums Manager for the city of Niagara Falls. He over-sees not only the Niagara Falls History Museum but also the Battle Ground Hotel Museum and the Willoughby Historical Museum
May 2, 2020 ~ Elaine Gill UE - The Great Upheaval (1755-1764)
The odyssey of the Boudrot family during a tumultuous time in Acadia.
Elaine Gill is a member of the Colonel John Butler Branch of UELAC who enjoys researching her own family history.
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