Brian McConnell
Brian McConnell UE, BA (Hon.), LL.B is a retired lawyer, genealogist, historian, author, and heritage volunteer.
Articles and stories by him have been published in newspapers, magazines, and journals including Celtic Life International, The Loyalist Gazette. and The Nova Scotia Genealogist. They can also be viewed online at Historic Nova Scotia and Atlantic Loyalist Connections.
He has authored 14 historical nonfiction books.
Over many years he has volunteered for several community and heritage associations. In 2016 he was presented with a Certificate for Volunteer Service by the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and in 2022 was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal.
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Articles and stories by him have been published in newspapers, magazines, and journals including Celtic Life International, The Loyalist Gazette. and The Nova Scotia Genealogist. They can also be viewed online at Historic Nova Scotia and Atlantic Loyalist Connections.
He has authored 14 historical nonfiction books.
Over many years he has volunteered for several community and heritage associations. In 2016 he was presented with a Certificate for Volunteer Service by the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and in 2022 was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal.
Follow him on:
@brian.mcconnell.history
Address: Nova Scotia, Canada
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the history of the country. Even then it must have felt like it was having a
tremendous impact on the people of Ireland as in the case of one young man from Newbliss, County Monaghan - a Royal Irish Fusilier.
In the third week of April, 1916 Joseph Clarke, found himself instead fighting against other Irishmen in Dublin. He had enlisted six months earlier at the age of 19 with the Royal Irish Fusiliers of the British Army, intending to join the Ulster Division and fight Germans in France. After enlistment he had been posted with the Ulster Composite Battalion and sent to Dublin.
about.
British troops that defeated Americans in 1814 and captured and burned their capital, Washington. He was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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On a hill overlooking a portion of the Cemetery are the two headstones to Orangemen, standing side by side as sentinels. They were both erected by members of the local Orange Lodge, Spurgeon Loyal Orange Lodge # 1624. It was a lodge established in 1892 when iron ore was discovered in the area and mining operations began that led to the growth of the population. Many of the original members were miners.
the history of the country. Even then it must have felt like it was having a
tremendous impact on the people of Ireland as in the case of one young man from Newbliss, County Monaghan - a Royal Irish Fusilier.
In the third week of April, 1916 Joseph Clarke, found himself instead fighting against other Irishmen in Dublin. He had enlisted six months earlier at the age of 19 with the Royal Irish Fusiliers of the British Army, intending to join the Ulster Division and fight Germans in France. After enlistment he had been posted with the Ulster Composite Battalion and sent to Dublin.
about.
British troops that defeated Americans in 1814 and captured and burned their capital, Washington. He was buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
On a hill overlooking a portion of the Cemetery are the two headstones to Orangemen, standing side by side as sentinels. They were both erected by members of the local Orange Lodge, Spurgeon Loyal Orange Lodge # 1624. It was a lodge established in 1892 when iron ore was discovered in the area and mining operations began that led to the growth of the population. Many of the original members were miners.
The land Joseph Smith received was in present day Upper Clements. Soon after receiving this grant he made an agreement to exchange it with Joseph Potter, Jr., a pre -- Loyalist settler in Smith's Cove. This land was exchanged for lot 10 of the Hoar Grant, named after Colonel Jonathan Hoar who received large grants of land in the area which included what would become Smith's Cove. He served in the French and Indian War and was elected the first representative of the County of Annapolis in 1759.
time they served side by side. Another occasion where they fought together against a foe was more than a thousand kilometres away in southwestern Nova Scotia. There some Mohawks served with
the British between 1712 and 1713 against the French and their allies.
On the Eastern side of the town of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia along the south side of St. George Street beside the Annapolis River stands a post with a plaque commemorating the Iroquois at Annapolis Royal. It is a reminder of the part played by a company of Mohawks in the defense of Annapolis Royal.
In 1795 he died at Wilmot and was buried at the Old Holy Trinity Church in Middleton. At the end of the American Revolution, Brigadier - General Timothy Ruggles was among the 20,000 Loyalists who were relocated to Nova Scotia by the British.
He was also the husband of Flora MacDonald, the Jacobite heroine who helped save Bonnie Prince Charlie from capture after the Battle of Culloden.