TORONTO BRANCH - for United Empire Loyalists

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New members -
Mrs. H. A. Jackson. Montreal
Mr. T. H. Lincoln Rice, Guelph
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Obituary: Allen Servos Ball UE
uring November the Toronto Branch suffered a great loss in the death of the President Mr. Allen
Servos Ball after a long illness. Mr. Ball joined the Branch in 1961 and served two years as Vice-
President before assuming office in 1966. Fitting tribute was made to Mr. Ball at the meeting of the
Branch.
Mr. Ball was born in Toronto in 1899. attended Huron St. School. and later from the first day of its
existence the University of Toronto Schools from which he graduated in 1916.
He entered the abbreviated wartime course of the Royal Military College in Kingston. Upon completion
of the course he undertook pilot training at Scarborough. In early 1918 he was sent to England and
commissioned as an officer in the Royal Flying Corps, which soon became the Royal Air Force. He
served in England until 1919 when the Canadian forces returned to Canada.
For twenty years he was actively associated with militia regiments of Artillery and Cavalry, among them
being The Ontario Mounted Rifles, The Mississauga Horse and the Governor-General's Horse Guards.
Interest in the Niagara area and Loyalist history began in early boyhood as his family took great pride in
their firm roots in British Canada. His middle name "Servos" attests to the close ties of the Servos and
Ball families in Niagara for more than one hundred years before his berth. A great Uncle was George
Brown, founder of the Globe and often referred to as a father of Confederation.
A voracious reader and lifelong "History Buff" Mr. Ball found Scottish, French medieval and American
Civil War History deeply engrossing. He had a deep and abiding sense of Empire born as he was in a late
year of Victoria's reign. Nourished by Kipling and Scott and being by inheritance and education of
consistent and thorough loyalty to the crown.
Mr. Ball is survived by a daughter Mrs. Arthur Webster, of Bethesda, Maryland and a sister Miss K. L.
Ball of Richmond Hill. Both are members of the Toronto Branch.
1968 Autumn
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he Toronto Branch program sheet begins with the following retrospect of Centennial Year.
"We can now look back upon the things which were identified with Centennial Year - and indeed
what identified Centennial Year! The stimulation generated by "looking back" i.e. History, in other
words, is carrying over into 1968. Probably each Historical Group or Society has awakened or reawakened
- to a new sense of purpose. In our case- The United Empire Loyalist Association - we can reassess
our endeavours to carry out the chief purpose of our organization. Literally, tens of thousands of
people, scattered across Canada, must be true descendants of U.E.L. ancestors. How many of them realize
this? This is not "ancestor worship", it is a legitimate part of one's education to know of important events,
people and places."
This Branch has many activities planned for the fall season, a dessert luncheon will be given in The
Library of the Women's Art and Lyceum Club on Oct. 22nd and on the 30th the Ladies' Auxiliary have