Loyalist Trails

March 2017

Loyalist Trails 2017-11

Admin CCG2021-12-03T15:14:12-05:00March 12th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-11: March 12, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– Expanding the Headlines of 1777: Avenging Stephen Edwards, by Stephen Davidson
– The Battle of Red Bank
– Update from Loyalist Claims
– UELAC Loyalist Scholars Update: Stephanie Seal Walters
– Target $300 for Canada 150 Scholarship Project
– Borealia: British Honour – Anishinaabeg in the War of 1812 (Part 5)
– JAR: Benedict Arnold’s Phantom Duel
– The Junto: Book Review by Christopher F Minty of The American Revolution Reborn
– Ben Franklin’s World: How Many Loyalists There Were? How Many Left the US?
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Loyalist Trails 2017-10

Admin CCG2021-12-03T15:30:46-05:00March 5th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-10: March 5, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– Expanding the Headlines of 1777: The Victim of Ambition, by Stephen Davidson
– UE Loyalist Certificates Issued in January
– Further Comments on Loyalist Claims (Part 2 of 2), by John Noble
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Lost Loyalists: Volume 1
– Borealia: The Importance of Michilimackinac – Anishinaabeg in the War of 1812
– JAR: A ‘Heavenly Harvest’ of Vulnerable Women in North Carolina
– The Past is Never Dead, Only Deadly Boring: the Newport ‘Radicals’
– Ben Franklin’s World: How many Americans supported the […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-09

Admin CCG2021-12-03T15:33:02-05:00February 26th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-09: February 26, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– First Nations Sons and Daughters in the Book of Negroes, by Stephen Davidson
– Further Comments on Loyalist Claims (Part 1 of 2), by John Noble
– Borealia: Jamaican Maroons in Nova Scotia: The politics of climate and race
– JAR: Preventing Slave Insurrection in South Carolina & Georgia, 1775-1776
– Ben Franklin’s World: Andrew O’Shaughnessy, The Men Who Lost America
– Veterans of Lincoln & Welland Regiment Receive France’s Legion of Honor
– Ontario Drivers Last chance: Celebrate Heritage Month with a Loyalist Licence […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-08

Admin CCG2021-12-03T15:32:01-05:00February 19th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-08: February 19, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– The Course of True (Loyalist) Love, by Stephen Davidson
– More Details on Five Loyalist Claims, by John Noble
– JAR: Duncan Grant’s Wife Margaret: Someone to write home about
– The Junto – Guest Review: Never Caught: Ona Judge, the Washingtons, and the Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: In Sickness and in Health: the Black Refugees at Hammonds Plains, winter 1827
– Faux-Loyalism: Who Gets Evaluated vs. Who Gets Left Behind
– A Loyalist’s Detailed Obituary
– Ontario Drivers […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-07

Admin CCG2021-12-03T15:33:46-05:00February 12th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-07: February 12, 2017

In this issue:
– 2017 UELAC Conference: Discover Your Roots
– Valentine’s Day: Montreal 1788, by Stephen Davidson
– Comment: Pepperrell Family
– The Loyalist Regiments of the American Revolutionary War 1775-1783
– Borealia: Jean Baptiste Assiginack / The Starling (aka Blackbird): Anishinaabeg in the War of 1812
– JAR: Crossing the Great Divide: The Battle at Van Creek, Georgia, February 11, 1779
– The Junto: Fashioning the 17th Century in Boston: John and Hannah Leverett
– Brock U. Collection Shows Canada’s Rich History of Welcoming Refugees
– Ontario Drivers: For Valentine’s, a Loyalist Licence Plate
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Loyalist Trails 2017-06

Admin CCG2021-12-03T15:34:54-05:00February 5th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-06: February 5, 2017

In this issue:
– Massachusetts Loyalists Buried in Halifax (Part 3 of 3), by Stephen Davidson
– UE Loyalist Certificates Issued in November and December
– Borealia: Mookomaanish / The Damn Knife: Odaawaa Chief and Warrior
– JAR: George Hanger – His Adventures in the American Revolutionary War begin
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: The Importance of the Book of Negroes
– Ben Franklin’s World: Smuggling in Colonial America & Living History
– New Website Location: The Friends of the Loyalist Collection
– Research: Searching Loyalist Claims on Ancestry.ca and Elsewhere (Part 2 of 2)
– Ontario […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-05

Admin CCG2021-12-03T15:35:31-05:00January 29th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-05: January 29, 2017

In this issue:
– Massachusetts Loyalists Buried in Halifax (Part 2 of 3), by Stephen Davidson
– Nursery Rhyme Challenge: I Saw A Ship A-Sailing…
– Second thoughts on George III: Online Project Could Alter View of King
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Rampant Crime of Saint John County
– Borealia: Anishnaabeg in the War of 1812: More than Tecumseh and his Indians
– JAR: Those Who Could Not Serve
– Research: Searching Loyalist Claims on Ancestry.ca and Elsewhere (Part 1 of 2)
– Resource: Guysborough Sketches and Essays by A.C. Jost
– A Sweetheart Deal For […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-04

Admin CCG2021-12-03T15:36:17-05:00January 22nd, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-04: January 22, 2017

In this issue:
– Massachusetts Loyalists Buried in Halifax (Part 1 of 3), by Stephen Davidson
– A Good Time to be ‘Sic’
– Nursery Rhyme Challenge: Sing a Song of Loyalists
– Canada 150: Celebrating our Loyalist Ancestry – In Song
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Crime in Saint John County
– JAR: George Washington Tells a Lie
– Book review: From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina Loyalists
– A Sweetheart Deal For Ontario Drivers: February Special
– Where in the World?
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond
– Queries
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Loyalist Trails 2017-03

Admin CCG2021-12-03T15:36:53-05:00January 15th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2016-03: January 15, 2016

In this issue:
– Mother Goose, Loyalist-Style: Part 2 of 2, by Stephen Davidson
– Reader Challenge: A Revolutionary Nursery Rhyme
– Loyalist Songs: “Yankee Doodle”
– Revolution’s Georg[i]e
– Loyalist Quarterly, by Paul Bunnell: December 2016 Issue Now Available
– Muskets of the Crown
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Help with Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Given Names
– JAR: Blame Canada: The Quebec Act & the American Revolution
– Borealia: “The Mighty Waters of Democracy”: Thomas Chandler Haliburton on American Populism
– The Junto: Women’s History, Primary Sources, and the United States History Survey
– Where […]

Loyalist Trails 2017-02

Admin CCG2021-12-03T15:37:28-05:00January 8th, 2017|Categories: Loyalist Trails|

“Loyalist Trails” 2017-02: January 8, 2017

In this issue:
– Mother Goose, Loyalist-Style: Part 1 of 2, by Stephen Davidson
– Reader Challenge: A Revolutionary Nursery Rhyme
– History of Nova Scotia: Plan to Invade Nova Scotia
– The Great Dismal Swamp: a Thriving Refuge for Runaways
– RevWarTalk: The Van Wyck Homestead
– Atlantic Loyalist Connections: Help with 18th-19th Century Given Names
– JAR: Major Misconceptions that should be Dispelled
– James Moody: American Soldier
– War of 1812: Major John Button
– Where in the World?
– Region and Branch Bits
– From the Twittersphere and Beyond
– Last Post: […]