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Weekend
Schedule
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THURSDAY, JULY 17
All day Registration & loading
12 noon - Noontime cannon (3rd New Jersey Volunteers)
5:00pm - Evening meal
7:00pm - Tavern Event
FRIDAY, JULY 18
All day Registration & loading
8:00am
- Reveille & Colours
9:00am - 5:00pm Set-up & load in
12 noon - Noontime Cannon (3rdNJV or other)
12 noon - Noontime meal
3:30pm - Formation / drill
4:00pm - Shelburne Fife Introduction
5:00pm - Evening meal
5:30pm - Commanders meeting
6:00pm - Parade
6:00pm - Encampment closed to public
9:00pm - Sunset Colour Ceremony
9:30pm - Harbour Ship skirmish - Continental Ship burning
SATURDAY JULY 19
Registration & loading
until 12 noon
7:30am
- Reveille & Colours
9:00am - Commanders meeting
9:00am - Troops assemble
10:00am - Formation / drill
12 noon - Noontime Cannon
12 noon - Noontime meal
2:00pm - Landing re-enactment assembly
3:00-4:00pm - Landing event
5:00pm - Evening meal
9:00pm - Sunset Colour Ceremony
9:30 - Tavern event
SUNDAY, JULY 20
8:30am - Reveille
& Colours
9:00am - Muster for church
9:15am - Parade to Church
10:00/10:30am Church Service - Rick
Welsh
11:00am - Parade to cenotaph for salute to all who have served
12 noon - Noontime meal
1:00pm - Parade to historic garden party
2:00pm - 18th Century Costume Exposition
3:00pm - Strike Camp
Skirmishes may be scheduled subject to the inclination of the commanders.
Participants are welcome to remain in the encampment through Tuesday morning
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In 1783 about 3000 Loyalists, fleeing the consequences of the
war in the Colonies, arrived in Shelburne, Nova Scotia
on ships from New York City. Even with many Loyalists
moving on to what is now New Brunswick and then to upper
Canada, the population in and around Shelburne quickly
swelled to more than 10,000.
As a result
of this migration, Shelburne became the 4th largest city
in North America and nearby Birchtown became the first
free black settlement in Canada. The Loyalists, who maintained allegiance to the British
Crown during the American Revolution, created an instant
boom town in the wilderness. The population, which had
grown so quickly, then decreased within twenty years to
a few hundreds as the Loyalists moved to other
destinations
The event is one of several
large re-enactment events over the last ten years,
portraying significant episodes in history surrounding
the "American War.". These include large events at
Quebec City, Fort Louisbourg, Fort Ticonderoga,
Saratoga, Savanna and Yorktown.
The host re-enactment group is
Abraham Van Buskirks Comany of the 3rd New Jersey
Volunteers and the Shelburne Reenactment Association and already there have been commitments from the Kings
Orange Rangers, Prince of Wales Historical Dancers,
Delancy's Brigade, the 78th Regimment of Foot Highland
Emigrants, 10th Regiment of Foot and the Royal American
Fencibles. The largest Revolutionary War-era
reenactment Society, the Brigade of the American
Revolution, has placed the event as its premier
national event for 2008.
Please
refer to this website often to learn more about this
“grand” weekend celebrating a unique chapter in
Canadian history.
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