Loyalist Day
June 12, 2010

WHEREAS "His Majesty approves the plan you have proposed for settling some of the Loyalists at Cataraqui and places adjacent" — Royal Proclamation of George III received by Governor Haldimand at Quebec on the 12th June, 1784;

AND WHEREAS "Previous settlements comprised of colonial officials, soldiers and Indian agents at Niagara and Detroit are regarded as strategic bases rather than permanent communities and Haldimand's decision to throw open the frontier was the spark that transformed the wilderness peninsula north of Lake Ontario and Erie" — Historian the late Larry Turner in "Allegiance — the Ontario Story";

NOW THEREFORE I HEREBY PROCLAIM June 12th, 2010, as "LOYALIST DAY", in Kingston and I recommend the observance of this special day to all citizens of our Great City.

DATED at Kingston, this 2nd day of June, 2010
Harvey Rosen, Mayor