Category: Loyalist Descendant

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Canada Loyal-List Loyalist Descendant

Hugh Bowlby Wilson Aikman

Meet Hugh Bowlby Wilson Aikman — lawyer, Gold Rush hopeful turned Vancouver Island settler. Trained in law at Upper Canada College, he came west for the Cariboo Gold Rush but stayed in Victoria. After years in practice, he became B.C.’s registrar-general in 1871 at age 35. He lived at the scenic Gables on Gorge Road and is buried at Ross Bay Cemetery — pictured in an unmarked grave in front of the headstone. Remembering a contributor to early B.C. civic life. #BCHistory #VictoriaBC #RossBayCemetery

Links: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=7612 | https://uelcanada.ca

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Canada Loyal-List Loyalist Descendant

Frederick Alan “Butch” Aikman

Meet Frederick Alan “Butch” Aikman DFC & Bar (Mar 5, 1919 – Mar 21, 1991) — a Canadian RAF fighter ace credited with at least nine enemy aircraft destroyed. After joining No. 154 Squadron in 1942, he flew as Wing Commander Paddy Finucane’s wingman during the sortie when Finucane was lost over the Channel. Aikman scored most of his victories in North Africa and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in Feb 1943. Honoring a brave wartime aviator. #WWII #RAF #CanadianHeroes

Links: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=7612 | https://uelcanada.ca

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Canada Loyal-List Loyalist Descendant

Marilla Adams

Meet Marilla Adams — a trailblazing Canadian artist & educator (b. 1864, Zorro, Canada West). Trained at Alma College, Ontario School of Art, New York’s School of Design and the Art Association of Montreal, she taught in Iowa, studied in Europe, and returned to Montréal around WWI. There she taught weaving and woodcarving to wounded soldiers and championed charities aiding the underprivileged. Died Nov 2, 1966. A creative educator who turned craft into care. #MarillaAdams #CanadianArt #WomenInArt #ArtsEducation

Links: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=4536 | https://uelcanada.ca

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Canada Loyal-List Loyalist Descendant

Milton Acorn

Meet Milton J. Acorn — “The People’s Poet.” Born on Prince Edward Island (Mar 30, 1923), Acorn served in WWII and carried its scars for life. A voice for ordinary Canadians, he won the Canadian Poets Award (1970) and the Governor General’s Award (1976) for The Island Means Minago. In 1977 he invented the Jackpine sonnet — irregular, spiky, and distinctly Canadian — weaving internal rhyme and assonance instead of fixed line counts. Remembering a poet who mixed craft with conscience. #MiltonAcorn #PeoplesPoet #CanadianPoetry #JackpineSonnet Link: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=11 Link: https://uelcanada.ca/acorn-milton/

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Loyalist Descendant Vancouver Island Loyal-List

Margaret Clapp, U.E.

Victoria UELAC Founding Member, Margaret “Maggie” Clapp, 1868-1957

  • Born in Minto, Wellington North, Ontario.
  • In 1921 census, single, living with sister and brother-in-law in Saskatoon.
  • UE Loyalist connection to Garrett Lorenz Miller 1738-1823 from Ireland. 
  • In obit, in Colonist, daughter of Philip Clapp, pioneer UEL family from Harriston, Ont.

The Victoria Branch of the UELAC will have its 100th Anniversary in 2027. In preparing for this anniversary, the Branch is seeking any additional information and descendants of the original 100 founders and members of the association of 1927 – 1939.

If you have any addtional information on Margaret Clapp or her ancestors/descendants, we would really appreciate hearing from you. You can respond through this web site or send an email to info.vic.uelac@gmail.com

If you are related to Margaret Clapp, you may also be a United Empire Loyalist descendant. As you may know, Lord Dorchester’s Proclamation states that Loyalist’s descendants are to be distingushed by affixing U.E. to their names alluding to their great principle the unity of the Empire. If you would like more information on United Empire Loyalists and/or have interest in tracing your Loyalist ancestor(s), please contact us at the Victoria UELAC branch at the email address above or get back to us through this web site.