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unusual facts about United Empire Loyalist



Alvin Head Moore

Born in Hatley, Stanstead County, Lower Canada, the son of American born United Empire Loyalists, Moore was president of the Waterloo and Magog Railway.

Belyea's Point Light

The lighthouse is named for its original keeper, "Spafford Barker Belyea" and the area's original United Empire Loyalist settler, "Hendrick Belyea".

Cobourg and Peterborough Railway

Most of Ontario was empty wilderness except for a few scattered settlements that formed primarily after the American Revolutionary War when then United Empire Loyalists were given land around the province, but mostly in Prince Edward County, near Kingston, Ontario.

Grove Church Cemetery

In the year 1890, Edwin B. Young, a descendant of United Empire Royalists and a colonel in the King's Royal, was made superintendent of the grounds.

Joseph E. Woodworth

Joseph was born in 1837 in Nova Scotia, the son of Benjamin B. Woodworth, a Justice of the Peace and important business figure in Kings County, as well as a United Empire Loyalist.

Richard John Cartwright

He was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario in a United Empire Loyalist family, the son of Harriet Dobbs Cartwright and the grandson of Richard Cartwright.


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