The United Empire Loyalists: an overview

Guest speaker: Robert C. Wilkins

When: Thursday, March 20, 2014, from 19:30 to 21:00

Where: Centennial Hall

            288 Beaconsfield Blvd, Beaconsfield, H9W 4A4

Lecture in English followed by a bilingual question period.

A general overview of the United Empire Loyalists, what made them who they were, their diversity(religious, linguistic and racial), and their heritage in Canada today, with a couple of specific examples, just to illustrate what they lived through and experienced during the Revolutionary War and afterwards when getting re-established in what remained of British North America (now Canada).

Robert C. Wilkins received the Governor General's Caring Canadian Award in 2001.