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2007 UEL Conference
Bicentennial Branch (Southwestern Ontario)
About the Bicentennial Branch
The Bicentennial Branch is the meeting place of the descendants of those families who relocated to Essex-Kent Counties of South Western Ontario or the adjacent United States as a result of their loyalty to the British Crown during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).
About the Loyalists who settled here
Following the American Revolutionary War, Lieutenant Colonel William Caldwell obtained by treaty with the Indians 97 lots along the north shore of Lake Erie as settlement lots for Loyalists. The native deed for their properties was granted in 1784. The New Settlement came to be inhabited by a mixture of soldiers and religious pacifists held together by their common loyalty to the British Crown.
The commitment that the New Settlement pioneers made to their new homes was an absolute one - one that would become apparent not only in the land itself, but in the social and cultural evolution of the area.
Most of the members of the Bicentennial Branch are descendants of the numerous refugees who arrived in the Detroit to Amherstburg area from the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland and New York between 1783 and 1790.
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LOYALIST TRAILS NEWSLETTER
Douglas Warner Grant UE
President, United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada
doug.grant@insurance-canada.ca
Tel: (416) 921-7756
Fax: (416) 753-7202
315 Carlton St., Toronto ON M5A 2L6 Canada
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