UNITED EMPIRE LOYALIST HERITAGE CENTRE & PARK
The best known United Empire Loyalist site in Canada is the United Empire Loyalist (UEL) Heritage Centre and Park in Adolphustown , Ontario located on the Adolphus Reach of the Bay of Quinte, and now part of the larger town of Greater Napanee in Lennox & Addington County. It includes a 72 acre park commemorating the arrival of the Loyalists in 1784 and features the first Loyalist landing site, the first Loyalist cemetery, the oldest monument to the Loyalists in Canada, and a museum with an archives. U.E.L. Heritage Centre A group of about 250 United Empire Loyalists led by Major Peter Van Alstine landed at Adolphustown on 16 June 1784. The group first sailed from New York in the fall of 1783 and spent the winter at Sorel , Quebec. In the spring, they continued up the St. Lawrence River to the Bay of Quinte and founded the first permanent white settlement ...