Our Loyalist Ancestors: Philip Embury
We at the Hamilton Branch of the UELAC have decided to add a new feature to our website: a monthly tribute to one of our… Read More »Our Loyalist Ancestors: Philip Embury
Loyalist History
A Look at Our United Empire Loyalist Monument
It’s been ninety-six years now that this Loyalist family of four, captured for the ages in bronze, has stood looking northward towards Main Street East in Hamilton (except for the little boy, who seems to have been distracted by something off to the southeast).
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More About the Mills Family
Lee-Ann Hines-Green UE
Loyalist Day Speaker, Dundurn Castle, July 19, 2025
Today, I will be talking more about the generation line that comes down from John and Anne Mills.
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Our Loyalist Statue and the Family Responsible for Its Creation
Neil Switzer BLArch UE
Loyalist Day Speaker, Dundurn Castle, July 19, 2025
Today, some 242 years after the end of the American Revolutionary War, we are meeting here to celebrate and honour our Loyalist ancestors, who maybe didn’t like the idea of increased British taxes any more than any of us would, but still chose to support the British cause and, unfortunately, suffered dearly for it.
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Read the Stories of Our Loyalist Ancestors
Our members have collectively done thousands of hours of research into their ancestry and the stories of their Loyalist forebears, sharing them through the pages of our newsletter, The Hamilton Loyalist. We are pleased now to make these stories available to the public.
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