Combined Meeting 

 Col. Jessup Branch UEL and Leeds & Grenville Genealogical Society

Monday, Nov. 13, 2006

 at the Brockville Tabernacle, 

Parkdale Ave. East,

( Formerly the Shrine Hall at 2811 Second Concession)

7:30 p.m.

Speaker   Mary Beacock Fryer

 

Nov. 13-   Traditional joint yearly meeting of the Leeds & Grenville Genealogists and the United Empire Loyalists.  Our featured speaker for the evening was Mary Beacock Fryer, an author with 20 books to her credit covering the adventures from Loyalist Families to The Life & Times of the Wall Street United Church in Brockville.  Mary was born in Brockville, attended BCI, and universities in Toronto and Scotland.

 

About the Author
Mary Beacock Fryer is a descendant of the U.E. Seaman's. Born in Brockville, Ontario, a community founded by Loyalist refugees, Mrs. Fryer knows the Loyalist period well and recreates it vividly. Her other publications in this field include Caleb Seaman, a Loyalist (1971), Loyalist Spy (1974), King's Men, The Soldier Founders of Ontario (1980), Rolls of the Provincial (Loyalist) Corps, Canadian Command, American Revolutionary Period (1981), and Buckskin Pimpernel, The Exploits of Justus Sherwood, Loyalist, Spy (1981). Stephen Clarke's evocative illustrations bring the people and the incidents of the novel to visual life.