Digitization of An Island Refuge
Abegweit (PEI) Branch, UELAC
The project currently underway to digitize “An Island Refuge” also updates dozens of family histories and substantially increases the list of documented Loyalists who came to Prince Edward Island both during and after the American Revolution. This project has a projected completion date of April 2026. — Kevin Wisener, UE; President, Abegweit Branch
Backstory:
An Island refuge: Loyalists and disbanded troops on the Island of Saint John
Orlo Jones & Doris Haslam (Editors)
Publisher: Abegweit Branch of the United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada, 1983.
ISBN 10: 0969138903 / ISBN 13: 9780969138907
An Island Refuge was written to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Loyal Refugees’ arrival on the Island of St. John. The men and women who came here following the American Revolution made a major contribution to the welfare of our Province.
This volume includes: Land claimants list of 1841; accounts of regiments which helped protect the Island during the American revolution; copies of the original muster rolls; and the history of one hundred and four Loyalist families, with genealogies.
