In the lower floor of St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church, at Hilliard and St. Paul's Street, Peterborough, Ontario, join Canadian naval author and historian, Roger Litwiller, and discover Peterborough's connection to Canada's Navy. His Majesty's Canadian Ship PETERBOROUGH was a Flower class corvette that fought during the Second World War. Discover incredible personal stories and photos...

Speaker: Stephen Davidson UE Based on his 2019 book Birchtown and the Black Loyalist Experience: From 1775 to the Present. Available in bookstores, richly illustrated with photos of Birchtown and the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, this book recounts the saga of Canada's first free Black founders. Join a few minutes early at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81576651796?pwd=ZC9BQ1VzM1Y4YVIzMm1kMk45cVpsUT09

Featuring guest speaker, Jean Rae Baxter, UE, who will be talking about her latest book, The Knotted Rope. The Knotted Rope, the sixth and final novel in what has become known as the “Forging a Nation” series, is set in Niagara in 1793 during the last days of slavery in Upper Canada. It returns to the subject...

Kawartha Branch UELAC is inviting you to our annual Spring Banquet and AGM at the Baker's Hill Banquet Centre 555 Parkhill Road East, Peterborough, ON Saturday, 15 April 2023, 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Featuring music by Stephen Medd, balladeer. For more details, registration (deadline 31 March) etc. contact Grietje McBride UE maplegrm@gmail.com 705-295-4556.

"Valiant Amazing: The Elizabeth Beard Story" by Andrew MacLean Elizabeth Beard was a young Loyalist woman from Philadelphia who ultimately fought alongside her soldier husband during the Revolution. She was with him on a ship which was attacked, and she manned the cannon, tearing off parts of her dress to use as wadding. After that...