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From: Brandt Zätterberg <>
Subject: Re: [UEL] United Empire Loyalist Society
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:40:42 -0500
References: <HBELIJIIKHLMEJOBMNCNGEBHCLAA.kathie.orr@sympatico.ca>


Thank you Kathie, Barbaranne and Fraser.

What peaked my curiosity about the earlier groups is the following exerpt
from Adolphustown 1784-1984, by Katherine J, Lamont:

"Meanwhile the United Empire Loyalist Society decided to put up a monument
instead. On March 9th [1884] the United Empire Loyalist Adolphustown
Celebration Committee was established and took charge of preparations of the
festivities."

The "instead" refers to the previous paragraph which reads:

"The cornerstone of the St. Albans United Empire Loyalist Memorial Church
was laid on June 17th, 1884 by Sir John Beverly Robinson,
Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario."

It is interesting to note that the Centennial Committee desparately wanted
Prime Minister Macdonald to attend the festivities in June 1884.
Unfortunately the local Member of Parliament of the day was Liberal David W.
Allison, on whose farm the UEL Monument was erected and who had forced
Macdonald to give up the Lennox riding after the election of 1882.

Regards,
Brandt

PS - D.W. Allison's house is now the main building of the United Empire
Loyalist Heritage Centre. The 1884 monument is in the UEL Memorial Cemetery
which is part of the 72-acres that make up the site.





----- Original Message -----
From: "Kathie Orr" <>
To: "Brandt Zätterberg" <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:22 AM
Subject: RE: [UEL] United Empire Loyalist Society


> Brandt
>
> After the 1883-84 Loyalist Centennial celebrations a number of Loyalists
> organizations were formed in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Montreal. In
> 1896 the Ontario Association was formed. In 1913 the Ontario Association
> established a Central Council with branch representation from across the
> country. In 1914 they obtained their federal charter. The Ontario
> Association in time evolved into Toronto Branch UELAC. A number of
> publications call the Annual Transactions were published between 1898 and
> 1935.
>
> Regards,
> Kathie Orr
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandt Zätterberg [mailto:]
> Sent: March 4, 2003 10:13 AM
> To:
> Subject: [UEL] United Empire Loyalist Society
>
> Does anyone have information or source information on the United Empire
> Loyalist Society that was in existence before 1914?
>
> Regards,
> Brandt Zätterberg
>
> ______________________________
>
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