The St. Lawrence Branch publishes a triannual newsletter called The Royal Yorker. The title honours a local Loyalist regiment: The King’s Royal Regiment of New York, whose members were known as “Royal Yorkers.”
Our members receive the newsletter as one of the benefits of membership, in either digital or paper formats. MEMBERS CLICK HERE for the current issue, and an archive of recent issues. Enter the password we provided you with, in the centre of the page (not the side).
Each newsletter contains announcements of upcoming branch events, and informative reports from our executive, such as the President and Treasurer.
It also contains news reports on our branch events, as well as one-off historical and genealogical articles.
Older issues of The Royal Yorker are available below. We’ve added subject keywords next to the issue link, which describe the contents of each issue, for your convenience. Watch this space for more issues to be publicly released soon!
2020
- Spring 2020: Molly Brant; “Loyalist” place names; social media update; project updates; God Save the King/Queen origins; Jewish Loyalists; Ashley Harper award
- Winter 2020: Low water reveals history; Revolution on the Hudson; Recipe Book; Iroquois Point Cemetery; Loyalist Education and replica trunk; Black History Month; Pawpine
2019
- Winter 2019: Sir John Johnson Manor House renovation; Sir John Johnson crossword puzzle; John Crysler of Butler’s Rangers; Ronald Doering, Defending Our Home: Loyalist Families of Dundas County and the Battle of Crysler’s Farm; Widow Catherine Cryderman
- Spring 2019: Norman K. Crowder, Early Ontario Settlers; Loyalist Resource Centre and the Dundas County Archives; Lieutenant Malcolm McMartin of Martintown
- Summer 2019: Loyalist Resource Center; History Heavyweights Pringle and Harkness; Sir John Johnson; Witthoft Wit and Wisdom
- Autumn 2019: Mariatown; Vicki Holmes, Three Rivers Called Home; Loyalist Cemeteries; Cornwall Community Museum
2018
- Winter 2018: Williamstown; Sir William and Sir John Johnson; Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- Spring 2018: Carman House Museum, Iroquois; Ginette Guy, Unforgotten: Mary Mack, Cornwall’s First Lady
- Summer 2018: Loyalist Resource Centre in Dundas County Archives; God Save the Queen alternate lyrics; Indian Lands in Charlottenburgh; Darren Bonaparte, Creation & Confederation: The Living History of the Iroquois; Cornwall’s Loyalist plaque re-dedication; Loyalist Burial Site project
- Autumn 2018: Loyalist Burial Site project; Carman House Museum, Iroquois; Mary Beacock Fryer, John Walden Meyers: Loyalist Spy; Circuit ministers; Dundas County Archives; Carleton Island – Fort Haldimand; Valentine Cryderman
2017
- Spring 2017: Major James Gray of Gray’s Creek; John Albert Scott, Fort Stanwix (Fort Schuyler) and Oriskany: The Romantic Story of the Repulse of St. Leger’s British Invasion of 1777; A Pre-Loyalist glimpse of SD&G
- Summer 2017: Carol Goddard, Canada 150 medal recipient; Mary Whitmore Hoople of Hoople’s Creek; Bethune-Thompson House in Williamstown; Ian Bowering and Lor Pelton, The Living River: Secrets of the St. Lawrence from Cornwall to Prescott
- Autumn 2017: New Johnstown’s Refugee Blacksmiths; the Kutryk family, Empey descendants; Royal Coat of Arms on Loyalist discharge papers; Princess Amelia and her Cornwall street; Demolition of St. John’s Presbyterian cemetery in Cornwall; Gavin Watt, Fire and Desolation: The Revolutionary War’s 1778 Campaign as Waged from Quebec and Niagara Against the American Frontiers
