Kingston and District Branch UEL 25th Anniversary

 

On Saturday noon,  25 November 2003, Kingston & District Branch, UE Loyalists' Association of Canada,  celebrated 25 years as a local society.

The Dominion Chairman, Myrna M. Fox,  drove from Willowdale, to be part of the celebration.  The photographs show her more than once being part of the three hour event.

 Fred Hayward  spoke of how we can help educate our neighbours and students, but not before he acted in costume,  the part of his Palatine ancestor, Philip Embury, from a family of  refugees to a Rathkeale suburb,  County Limerick,  Ireland. - of course in Irish dialect.

Incidently, almost one third of the Loyalist refugees were of German background, especially in the future New Brunswick and future Ontario.

Carol Davy and Karen Burtoft had organized the event which started with Chris Whyman,  Kingston's well known Town Crier ringing in the Dominion and Kingston chairmen.

For more detail on our 25 years of history, read  the first two pages in the recent newsletter, the Cataraqui Town Crier,  an excellent article by Audrey Merkley Bailey, one of the very original charter members,  who has continuously assisted our association over the quarter century.