Next Meeting: 1:00 pm Saturday FEBRUARY 22 (Annual General Meeting)

Speaker: Dan Buchanan, “HMS Speedy: Tragedy and Mystery”.

We are very pleased to announce that Author Dan Buchanan has agreed to speak in person at our February 23 meeting. The title of Dan’s topic will be “HMS Speedy: Tragedy and Mystery”.

“Here is a tragedy and a mystery. HMS Speedy set sail from York on October 7, 1804, headed for Newcastle on Presqu’ile Point. On board were twenty passengers, most of them expecting to participate in a murder trial at the court house. A bad storm came up and the ship never arrived at Newcastle. It, along with all twenty souls, were never seen again. That included Ogetonicut, the Mississauga man accused of murdering John Sharp at Lake Scugog earlier in the year. Tensions between the government, the settlers and the Indigenous people forced the trial to take place way down the lake rather than at York, leading to the tragedy. In the early 1990s, a diver in Belleville was certain he had found the remains of HMS Speedy, but archaeologists did not agree. New information has come to light that might change some minds. But it is still a mystery!” www.danbuchananhistoryguy.com

MEETING LOCATION – Your Choice: In-Person or by ZOOM

Find us at 137 Queen St, Kingston, Hall entrance off Montreal Street.

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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.