Key Articles

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A Letter to the Editor of the Kingston Gazette, 27 Jul 1816

A.G.

Travels of Stephen Arnold and Families

Adams, Beth

Researching United Empire Loyalists at the Queen's University Archives

Banfield, Paul 

Whereas it is Unjust - Upper Canada's Role in the Fight to End Slavery

Baxter, Jean Rae

The Education of a Leader: Joseph Brant and the School that became Dartmouth College

Baxter, Jean Rae 

Honouring Loyalist History Through Fiction

Baxter, Jean Rae 

Two Nations, One King: Land-grabbing and Loss in the 18th Century

Baxter, Jean Rae 

Provincial Marine to Royal Navy: Archaeological Evidence of the War of 1812

Bazely, Sue 

The Many Layers of the Lower Burial Ground

Bazely, Sue 


St. Alban the Martyr United Empire Loyalist Memorial Church in Adolphustown

Berlet, Diane

Cataraqui Cemetery

Boals, Craig 

Through the Lands of the Lost Villages

Brownell, Jim 

The Young Estate: A Proud History in Prince Edward County, since 1783

Carson, Barbara

The Doctor Will See You: Early medicine in Canada

Chouinard, Maxime 

The Triumph of Villiany: The Loyalist Search for Honour in Defeat

Compeau, Dr. Tim

Another Source of Loyalist Petitions

Cutway, Nancy

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Cutway, Nancy

Cataraqui United Church Cemetary: A resting place of Loyalist Methodists

Cutway, Nancy

Loyalist Petitions Online at FamilySearch.org

Cutway, Nancy 

Loyalist Clothing: Design and Fabric for Period-Appropriate Attire

Cutway, Nancy 

Teenagers the same then and now

Cutway, Nancy 

Early surveying of the lands pre Loyalist settlements

Day, Nigel 

The History of Slavery Along the St. Lawrence River

DeBruin, Jennifer 

In Search of Home: The Loyalist Experience through War, Displacement

DeBruin, Jennifer 

Coping with the Wilderness: Telling Womens Stories of Early Upper Canada

Errington, Dr. Jane 

DNA: Which Test and Why?

Fingland, Joyce 

The American Occupation of Montreal & The Richelieu Valley: 1775-1776

Gallop, Mark

Discovering Unexpected UEL Ancestor Research Tools

Garrah, Brian

Benefits of digitization of archival materials

Heil, Jeremy 

Kingston and Samuel Holland

Hicks, Terry

The Reverend, the Knight and the Bombardier

Jodoin, Mark 

Documenting your Loyalist Ancestor

Johnson, Angela and Peter 

History of the ferries that plied between Kingston and Wolfe Island

Johnson, Brian 

2010 Tour of Mohawk Valley, New York State

Kipp, Ed; and Davy, Carol & Peter

My Lemon Ancestry

MacDonald, Wayne 

Palatine Children Apprenticed by Governor Hunter 1710-1714

McAuslan, Deb 

Palatines: Refugees from a Different Time

McAuslan, Deb 

A Tribute to John Ross Matheson, OC CD QC (1917 - 2013)

Milliken, Peter 

How Thousands of Loyalists Were Shipped to Eastern Ontario

More, David 

How the Deal Went Down: Indigenous People and the Establishment of Kingston

Murray, Dr. Laura 

Three Loyalist Heroes

Nicholson, Ruth 

O'Reilly Folklore

O’Reilly, Miles 

How to convert a modern urban address to old Lot and Concession Numbers

Parry, Richard

The Loyalists of Ernestown 1786

Parry, Richard

History of the cemetery around St. Pauls Anglican Church

Patterson, Brigadier-General William 

Background reading you can do as you research your Loyalist families

Redish, Anne

Using Find-A-Grave for Family Research

Shannon, Brian 

I Have My UE Certificate, Now What?

Sherren, Lorraine 

Genealogical Implications, Cemetery Disruptions

Simpson, Jane

Education in 19th Century Ontario

Sly, Gord 

Pack Up Your House and Sail!

Smith, Dr. Leigh 

Old Hay Bay Church and Its People

Staples, Kathy 

Heading North, Moving West: MALCOLM family

Taylor, Dean 

Exploring Kinship Through Her Majesty's Chapels Royal

Tidridge, Nathan 

History, Genealogy and the Trumpour Family

Trumpour, Mark

In Search Of Captain Paul Trumpour UE: Cemetery Rambles

Trumpour, Mark

1788 Militia Return

UELAC Staff

Did your Early Ancestor Attend Queen’s University? Find out!

UELAC Staff

Family memorial to Joseph Forsythe UE

UELAC Staff

Ontario's Township Papers Available on FamilySearch for Free

UELAC Staff

Additional Information about the Old Hay Bay Church in Adolphustown

UELAC Staff

Carscallen-Hinch Cemetery

UELAC Staff

Accessing and Preserving Family Heirlooms

VanSeggelen, Adriane 

St. Lawrence River in winter

Whitehorne, Amy 

Family Ties: Stories of four family groups

Young, Jay