Next Meeting: 1:00 pm Saturday SEPTEMBER 28
Speaker: Jennifer McKendry, Early Buildings of Kingston 1783 – 1830
Jennifer is an architectural historian, living in Kingston. She is a member of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, the Ontario Historical Society, the Frontenac Heritage Foundation, and the Kingston Historical Society. Current interests include studying doll houses and their furnishings as “architecture in miniature,” as well as lecturing on the 19th & 20th centuries architecture of south-eastern Ontario. She is a free-lance researcher and writer on the history and significance of heritage buildings, properties and archaeological sites. Her books include: Portsmouth Village, Kingston: an illustrated history & Kingston, the Limestone City: stone buildings in the Kingston region 1790 – 1930.
For the previous minutes and the agenda prior to any meeting, please look on our FACEBOOK page. 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.
