Loyalist Trails

August 2017

Loyalist Trails 2017-33

Admin CCG2021-12-02T21:12:38-05:00August 13th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-33: August 13, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– Penelope Winslow: The Loyalist “Princess” of Plymouth (Part 1), by Stephen Davidson
– Spanish Capture of British Bahamas
– Boston 1775: The Massachusetts Militia, and Its Exceptional Men
– Understanding the American Revolution using George III’s archives
– JAR: Dunmore’s War: The Last Colonial Conflict of America’s Colonial Era
– The Junto: Teaching Amid Political Tension: A Roundtable
– Ben Franklin’s World: George Washington’s Revolution
– Vice-Admiral The Hon. John Byron
– The Conversation: Eclipsing the Occult in Early America: Benjamin Franklin and His Almanacs
– […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-32

Admin CCG2021-12-02T21:13:41-05:00August 6th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-32: August 6, 2017

In this issue:
– UELAC Conference 2017 in London: The Winners
– Unpacking the Hessian’s Hatchment in Halifax, by Stephen Davidson
– Comment: John Grave Simcoe and “Turn”
– Ontario Licence Plate: Special Savings for Simcoe Day
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: The Abel Sands Mystery: A Case of Bastardy (Part Two)
– JAR: Reamstown Provides: A Pennsylvania Town’s Contribution to Valley Forge
– Ben Franklin’s World: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution
– France and the American Revolutionary War
– King’s Chapel and Boston’s Freedom Trail
– Loyalist Plaque/Grave Marker Available from UELAC
– Where […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-31

Admin CCG2021-12-02T21:15:46-05:00July 30th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-31: July 30, 2017

In this issue:
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: That’s a Wrap
– Loyalists and Their Horses (Part 3 of 3), by Stephen Davidson
– Ontario Licence Plate: Special Savings for Simcoe Day
– Update: Honouring Simon Girty in Pennsylvania
– Revisiting “Turn” and John Graves Simcoe
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections
– JAR: Cornwallis and the autumn campaign of 1780
– The Junto: (Book Review:) Adam Jortner’s Blood From the Sky
– Ben Franklin’s World: The Common Cause of the American Revolution
– Rev War Talk: Treaty of Paris (1783)
– Penobscot Expedition, Maine
– Where in […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-30

Admin CCG2021-12-02T21:16:23-05:00July 23rd, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-30: July 23, 2017

In this issue:
– UELAC Conference 2018, Mark your Calendar
– Loyalists and Their Horses (Part 2 of 3), by Stephen Davidson
– Addendum: Horses, and Elias and Peter Snider
– Ontario Licence Plate: Special Savings for Simcoe Day
– Digitizing the Royal Archives: The Georgian Papers Programme
– Mount Vernon: Lavish Lace: The Martha Washington Collection
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: The Abel Sands Mystery – A Case of Bastardy (Part One)
– JAR: Bite the Bullet: An Impressive Collection from the Mohawk Valley Campaign
– Rev War Talk: The Battle of Cowan’s Ford
– Ben […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-29

Admin CCG2021-12-02T21:17:02-05:00July 16th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-29: July 16, 2017

In this issue:
– Loyalists and Their Horses (Part 1 of 3), by Stephen Davidson
– Book: A Service History and Master Roll of Major Edward Jessup’s Loyal Rangers, by Gavin K. Watt
– Ontario Licence Plate: Special Savings for Simcoe Day
– Book: Canada’s Odyssey
– Borealia: Anguish in the Loyalist Archives, Part 2
– JAR: King George III’s Twitter War
– The Junto: Book Review: The Reintegration of South Carolina Loyalists
– Ben Franklin’s World: Manisha Sinha, A History of Abolition
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: Let the Good Times Roll
– Where in […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-28

Admin CCG2021-12-02T21:17:44-05:00July 11th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-28: July 11, 2017

In this issue:
– UELAC Gear: Order Before July 12
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: Let the Good Times Roll
– Sarah Winslow: The Spunky Sister (Part 2 of 2), by Stephen Davidson
– Honouring Simon Girty in Pennsylvania: Addendum
– Loyalist Surge Changed Makeup of Canada
– Borealia: Anguish in the Loyalist Archives, Part 1
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections Loyalist New Brunswick and the Absence of Party Politics
– JAR: Avenging Francis Bradley, the Mecklenburg Marksman: A Family Story
– Ben Franklin’s World: A Declaration in Draft
– Where in the World?
– Region and […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-27

Admin CCG2021-12-02T21:18:26-05:00July 2nd, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-27: July 2, 2017

In this issue:
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: Happy Canada Day Weekend!
– UELAC Gear: Order Before July 12
– UELAC Conference: 2017, Canada 150, and 2018
– Sarah Winslow: The Spunky Sister (Part 1 of 2), by Stephen Davidson
– Honouring Simon Girty in Pennsylvania
– Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe, Artist & Diarist
– Canadians all sound the same, UVic study finds
– Raise the Spitfire?
– Borealia: Indigenous Policy and Silence at Confederation
– JAR: The April 19, 1775 Civilian Evacuation of Lexington
– Ben Franklin’s World: Nathaniel Bowditch – 19th-Century of Business, Science, and […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-26

Admin CCG2021-12-03T14:53:18-05:00June 25th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-26: June 25, 2017

In this issue:
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: Last Week, Your Last Chance
– UELAC Gear: Order Before July 12
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– That Ship On the New Brunswick Flag, by Stephen Davidson
– How Tall was the Average Eighteenth-Century Soldier?
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: First Nations and Local Courts of New Brunswick
– JAR: From Yorktown to England – Cornwallis’s fraught passage home
– The Junto: Research at the Bodleian – A Guide
– Ben Franklin’s World: The Other Slavery – Indian Enslavement in the Americas
– First Nations: Algonquian […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-25

Admin CCG2021-12-03T14:56:03-05:00June 18th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-25: June 18, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– Unpacking a History Book’s Paragraph: The Famous and the Obscure (Part 3), by Stephen Davidson
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: 2 Weeks and Counting
– Book Review: Fire & Desolation, by Gavin Watt
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Researching Recipes – A First-Hand Look
– JAR: James Abercrombie, much lamented victim of Friendly Fire at Bunker Hill
– Junto: Ideology, Power, and Thrill
– Ben Franklin’s World: Frontier Politics in Early America
– British Forces Land at Staten Island New York, the New York Campaign Begins
– […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-24

Admin CCG2021-12-03T14:56:52-05:00June 11th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-24: June 11, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– Unpacking a History Book’s Paragraph: Dying in a Land of Strangers (Part 2), by Stephen Davidson
– Canada 150 Scholarship Project: Three Weeks to Go!
– The World Remembers WWI: 2017 Project
– The 1772 Gaspee Affair, Rhode Island’s Own Tea Party>
– The Smithsonian: When Nova Scotia Almost Joined the American Revolution
– The Prussian Nobleman Who Helped Save the American Revolution
– Borealia: Book Review – Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family
– JAR: William Bingham, Forgotten Supplier of the American Revolution
– Ben […]