Next Meeting: 1:00 pm Saturday SEPTEMBER 28
Speaker: Jennifer McKendry, Early Buildings of Kingston 1783 – 1830
Find us at 137 Queen St, Kingston, Hall entrance off Montreal Street. For those joining in on Zoom [Check Here for link closer to meeting date]
For the previous minutes and the agenda prior to any meeting, please look on our FACEBOOK page. (Maybe in the FILES, if I can get that to work) https://www.facebook.com/groups/KingstonUELAC
UPCOMING Events and Happenings….
Monday July 1
Bath Canada Day Parade & Booth
Saturday November 23 at 1:00 pm
Speaker: Jane Simpson UE, speaks about her book: Shades of Alliegence: Hidden Loyalties of the Giraud / Gerow Family in the Revolution.
To be followed by our Annual General Meeting
(A range of volunteering options are available,
whether you are near or far).
Kingston & District Branch of UELAC welcomes you!
Our Objectives:
- To unite together in good fellowship the descendants of those families who during the American Revolutionary War sacrificed their land, homes and belongings by retaining their loyalty to the British Crown.
- To preserve the history of the Loyalists by collecting artifacts, publishing historical and genealogical books, and erecting monuments and memorials in Canada to perpetuate the memory of the United Empire Loyalists.
- To seek out and preserve the final resting places of the Loyalists within Kingston and District area (Frontenac and Lennox & Addington Counties of Ontario).
- To increase public awareness of the Loyalist contribution to Canada by encouraging a stronger emphasis on Canadian, particularly Loyalist, history in the school system and by participating in projects that celebrate the memory of the United Empire Loyalists.