Volume 2 Issue 4 June 2011 - United Empire Loyalists, Manitoba

June 2011
Volume 2, Issue 3
Loyalist Lines
Manitoba Branch United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada/
Annual Branch Church Parade
2011 Annual Branch Church Parade was held on
Sunday, May 15, 2011 at North Kildonan United Church
in Winnipeg.
Attendees enjoyed a time of fellowship with members of
the congregation following the service followed by lunch
at the Norvilla Hotel.
Don’t miss the Annual Loyalist Picnic/Barbeque
Saturday, June 25, 2011
(Rain date June 26th)
Home of Jennifer and Ken
Swanston
106 Wordsworth Way
(Westwood) Winnipeg
Turn South (towards the
Assiniboine River) from
Portage Avenue on to
Westwood Drive (T
intersection). Westwood Dr.
is between the Grace Hospital
and Unicity Shopping Centre.
Continue on Westwood Dr. for
about 2/3 mile and turn right
on Wordsworth Way (just
past Westwood Presbyterian
Church).
Plan to arrive about 2:pm.
Just bring your own food and
drink.
Tea and coffee will be
supplied.
Please let Lynn Francis
know of your intentions at
257-7724
or Ken Swanston at
888-9774 or
jkswan3@shaw.ca
On or before,
Monday, June 20th
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Cheers to Organizers of “Catch the Spirit”
Hats off to the 2011 “Catch the
Spirit” committee from The Col.
Edward Jessup Branch in
Brockville, Ontario. The
conference was indeed a great
celebration of our Loyalist Roots
jam packed with interesting tours
and activities. Our Manitoba
contingent consisted of nine and
from all reports each and every
one of the attendees made the
most of the event, meeting new
UELAC friends, renewing old
acquaintances, learning the
history of the region or pursuing
family research.
During the opening reception held
at the Brockville Rowing Club, our
group invited everyone to attend
the 2012 Conference hosted by
our Manitoba Branch by
performing a rousing ballad to the
tune of ”Red River Valley”.
Unfortunately, we did not have an
opportunity to practice prior to the
performance but the audience
was kind and applauded our
efforts!
2012 Invitation Lyrics
To this valley we hope you are
coming
We will welcome you in true
Prairie style
For they say Loyalists at Hotel
Fort Garry
Will be a conference very
worthwhile.
Our big skies and vast prairie
vistas
Are well known across this great
land,
But we also have a desert and
forests
and many lakes with lovely white
sand.
From the East and the West
you’ll be coming
You will love our great sites and
kind smiles
We will swat huge mosquitoes
for you
And laugh with you all the while.
From your room you will soon be
agazing
At the Forks and the rivers that
meet
The Conference will be so amazing
You will want to stay for a week!
Come and tour at the lower Fort
Garry
Under skies of deep azure blue
And remember the Red River
Settlers
Some of whom were Loyalists
too.
Conference at the Confluence will
be so engaging
We will welcome friends both old
and new
And we hope all the plans we have
hewn
Are enough to entice you next
June.
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Summer Reading Suggestions
Author Jean Rae Baxter
During the “Catch the Spirit”
UELAC conference in
Brockville, June, 2011
Broken Trail
By author
Jean Rae Baxter
In a forest clearing north of Lake
Ontario, twelve-year-old Broken Trail
waits anxiously for the vision that will
reveal his path through life. Knowing that
he is white by birth and an Oneida only
through adoption, he fears lest the
Spirits deny him the mystic dream that is
independence. In the aftermath of the
British and Loyalist forces’ defeat at
King’s Mountain, South Carolina, he finds
the brother he had tried to forget.
Published by Ronsdale Press. ISBN 9781-55380-109-2
the essence of an Indian boy’s passage to
In September look for
manhood. But at the very moment when
ISBN 978-0-9808879-9-0
his vision finally appears, a single shot
fired by a Loyalist soldier sets in motion a
series of events that take him on a
dangerous trail.
The bullet was aimed not at Broken Trail
Scattered Light
A new collection of short stories, slightly
noir, mostly murderous, a little humorous
but at a wolverine. The soldier who shot
and very Canadian.
the boy was hunting with a comrade. While
tending Broken Trail’s wound, which is
By Jean
minor, the two soldiers realize that the
“The stories are expertly crafted, deafly
boy is not an Indian. Despite his protests,
they take him to their camp for
questioning. Broken Trail reveals his
original name, Moses Cobman. A soldier
in the camp knows the boy’s brother,
Elijah Cobman, and is familiar with the
story of the runaway who joined the
Oneidas.
Offered gifts to carry a message to the
commander of a Loyalist force to the
Rae Baxter
written and psychologically complex,
offering suspense, surprise, irony, and
social observation, with a variety of
backgrounds and viewpoint characters of
various ages and stations in life. ..
Baxter has the storyteller’s knack of
gripping the reader throughout, and she
brings her characters to life in economical
strokes.
south, Broken Trail agrees. Setting off
Jon L. Breen
on a dangerous journey, he is drawn into
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
the American Colonies’ struggle for
“The bullet was aimed
not at Broken Trail but
at a wolverine”
Answers
to
Canada
Day
Quiz.
1. Bytown 2. Cupids,
NFLD 3.Rupert’s Land
4.Alberta 5.Dominion
Day 6.Plains of Abraham
7.Red river Cart 8.Emily
Carr 9.Sir AdolpheBasile Routhier 10. The
Battle of Beaumont
Hamel, the first day of
the Battle of the Somme
Passing the Flag
Manitoba Branch
United Empire
Loyalists'
Association of
Canada
Loyalist Resource Centre
During the Gala Banquet held at
the Brockville Armories, “2012
UELAC Conference at the
Confluence” co-chairs Lorraine
Cook and Gerry Lane accepted
the traditional flag handoff from
representatives of the Col.
Edward Jessup Branch, Roy
Lewis and Myrtle Johnston.
120 Eugenie Street
Winnipeg, MB
R2H 0X7
204- 489-7180
Pictured to the left are the Manitoba
Branch representatives who visited
Brockville during the 2011 UELAC
conference.
President: Peter Rogers
Secretary: Mary Steinho f f
Treasurer: Dianne Nerbas
Education: Rod Nerbas
Membership: Vera Ash
85th Birthday Greetings to
Amy Forsyth June 17th.
Happy Birthday Amy
We’re on the Web!
See us at:
http://www.uelmanitoba.ca
Canada Day Quiz
1. What is the original name for Ottawa?
2. Name the first permanent English settlement in Canada.
3. Name the large plot of land held by the Hudson Bay Company from 1670 to 1870 when it was
transferred to Canada.
4. What Canadian Province is named after Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter?
5. Canada Day was first established by what name in 1879?
6. On what famous battlefield did General Wolfe and the British Army defeat the French Army for
control of Quebec in 1759?
7. What was the name given to the 19th century cart pulled by oxen or horses, that traveled, often
hundreds of miles at a time, through the Canadian west?
8. Name the female artist known also “Klee Wyck” by the Nuu-Chah-nulth First Nation on Canada’s
West Coast.
9. Who wrote the words to O’Canada?
10. Name the tragic First World War battle that took place on July 1, 1916 and resulted in the death or
wounding of almost the entire 1st Newfoundland Regiment.
Answers on page 3