We offer a collection of documents which may be of relevance for your family history.

Background Information – put together by the late John Chard UE

1. The Story of the Loyalists
2. Plaque to Commemorate the United Empire Loyalists in Upper Canada – press release issued May 18, 1967
3. The United Empire Loyalists – excerpt from address by Professor A. R. M. Lower, 1960
4. Chronology of Main Events in The Founding of Loyalist Kingston and District
5. Some Historical Dates of United Empire Loyalist Pioneer Events
6. Who Was Sir John Johnson?

Other documents that may interest you:

• A paper by historian Earle Thomas on the arrival of Loyalists into Upper Canada in 1784.
• A listing of the  first registered deeds issued to owners of each property in Ernestown Township, Lennox & Addington County. Compiled by Sharon J. Cadieux, UE, from a map in custody of Lennox & Addington County Museum and Archives.
• A listing of the  first settlers at Cataraqui in 1785, from Archives of Ontario, Surveyors’ Letters, 1788-91.
• A Walking Tour brochure you can use to visit locations in Kingston associated with Loyalists.
• The Founding of Kingston