UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS

in Canadian history, name applied to those settlers who, loyal to the British cause in the American Revolution, migrated from the Thirteen Colonies to Canada. Some emigrated during the Revolution, but the greatest number left the colonies in 1783–84, after the Treaty of Paris had failed to make adequate provision for the Loyalists. Numbers estimated at up to 50,000 went to British North America—principally to Nova Scotia and Quebec. In Nova Scotia, so many settled north of the Bay of Fundy that this region was separated from Nova Scotia and organized as the province of New Brunswick in 1784. Others, flocking to the region north of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, were numerous enough to cause the creation (1791) of Upper Canada (Ontario).

See studies by W. S. Wallace (1914, repr. 1972) and A. G. Bradley (1932, repr. 1972).

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books on: United Empire Loyalists  - 513 results

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While the Women Only Wept: Loyalist Refugee Women in Eastern Ontario
Book by Janice Potter-MacKinnon; McGill-Queens University Press, 1995
Subjects: Canada--History--1763-1791, Ontario--History--1791-1841, United Empire loyalists--Ontario--History, Women--Ontario--History--18th century
...Settlement of the United Empire Loyalists , 33. 31...The Settlement of the United Empire Loyalists , 124...The Settlement of the United Empire Loyalists , 45...The Settlement of the United Empire Loyalists , 126, 105. 35 Ibid...Illustrated Introduction to Loyalist Ontario Toronto and...
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The Church of England in Loyalist New Brunswick, 1783-1825
Book by Ross N. Hebb; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004
Subjects: Church Of England--Diocese Of Nova Scotia, Church Of England--New Brunswick--History, New Brunswick--Church History, United Empire Loyalists--Religious Life
...New Brunswickers. By this time the Loyalists were all dead and the colony had been...said with certainty is that among the Loyalists, churchmen were never in a majority...realization that for the vast majority of Loyalists, including many nominal churchmen...between various denominations in the Loyalist period. This denominational fluidity...
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The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution
Book by James H. Stark; J.H. Stark, 1910
Subjects: American Loyalists--Massachusetts, Massachusetts--Politics And Government--1775-1783
...to the unity of the empire, and joined the Royal...are organized as the United Empire Loyalists, and count it an honor...Britain. The cause of the Loyalists failed, but their stand...conceive prosperity. The Loyalist obeyed his nature...continent north of the United States, an extension...
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The Loyalists in the American Revolution
Book by Claude Halstead Van Tyne; Peter Smith, 1929
Subjects: American Loyalists
...persecution and return to the United States, but many thousands...of the great British empire, they began to glory...descendants, organized as the United Empire Loyalists, count it an honor...Britain. The cause of the Loyalists failed, but their stand...conserve prosperity. The Loyalist obeyed his nature as...
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The Loyalists in the American Revolution
Book by Claude Halstead Van Tyne; Macmillan, 1902
Subjects: American Loyalists
...persecution and return to the United States, but many thousands...of the great British empire, they began to glory...descendants, organized as the United Empire Loyalists, count it an honor...Britain. The cause of the Loyalists failed, but their stand...conserve prosperity. The Loyalist obeyed his nature as...
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journal articles on: United Empire Loyalists  - 182 results

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The National Allegory of Fraternity: Loyalist Literature and the Making of Canada's White British Origins
Journal article by Daniel Coleman; Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 36, 2001
Subjects: Allegory, Canada, Canadian literature, History, History & criticism, Kirby, William, Literature, Raddall, Thomas H, Richardson, John, Sex roles, United Empire Loyalists, United Kingdom, Whites
...idealized surface of loyalist discourse...descendants of United Empire Loyalists who acclaimed...problem for loyalist discourse because...idealization of the United Empire refugees as...emphasis on United Empire Loyalist pedigree, Tory...
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Commemorating the Loyalists in the Loyalist City: Saint John, New Brunswick, 1883-1934
Journal article by Greg Marquis; Urban History Review, Vol. 33, 2004
Subjects: Economic development--Analysis, Economic development--New Brunswick, Loyalty--Analysis, Loyalty--Influence, Saint John, New Brunswick--Economic aspects, Saint John, New Brunswick--History
...tendencies of the Loyalists, Hay insisted...and promote Loyalist history and...support the United Empire Loyalist...memory in the United States...Barkley, "The Loyalist Tradition...Understanding the Loyalists (Sackville...Nation and Empire; Gender...States: The Loyalist Dream for...Understanding the Loyalists, chap...Raymond, The United Empire Loyalists...
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A Loyalist's Journey
Journal article by Keith Mason; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 102, 1994
Subjects: American Revolution, Parker, James (1729-1815), Personal profiles
A Loyalists Journey by Keith Mason...road to becoming a Loyalist. Like others who had...commitment to the British empire was not unconditional...what was essentially a united community response...integrative view of the empire and to harbor dark...Reintegration of the Loyalists and the Disaffected...Calhoon et al., The Loyalist Perception and Other...
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A 'great National Calamity': Sir William Pepperell and Isaac Royall, Reluctant Loyalists
Journal article by Colin Nicolson, Stuart Scott; Historical Journal of Massachusetts, Vol. 28, 2000
...Royall, Reluctant Loyalists by Colin Nicolson...proscribed as a loyalist by his rebellious...other distressed loyalists. Now, as Christmas...Britains American empire? Even at this...1773 and 1774 were united in their efforts...Paris of 1783, the United States promised...compensate the loyalists. The majority of Massachusettss loyalist exiles were able...
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Canada-united States Relations: Options for the 1970s
Journal article by Robert Bothwell; International Journal, Vol. 58, 2003
Subjects: 1970-1979, Canada, Canadian history, International relations, United States
Canada-united States Relations: Options for the...One of Canadas founding groups, the United Empire Loyalists, was American, and the question of...history, refusal to fight for the United States received widespread public approval...
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magazine articles on: United Empire Loyalists  - 112 results

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Patrick Ferguson, the Loyalists, and the American Revolution
Magazine article by J. B. Cheaney; World and I, Vol. 15, May 2000
Subjects: American loyalists--History, Ferguson, Patrick--Behavior, United States history, United States history--Revolution, 1775-1783
...doubtful that the United States would have...remained in the empire, achieving in...hundred thousand Loyalists fled their country...to stay in the United States, no doubt...who served in the Loyalist militia. But even...never denied their Loyalist roots. The silver...Ferguson and the Loyalists--thanks to the...the truth. The United States is still...
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The Good Empire
Magazine article by Chalmers Johnson; Soundings, Winter 2007
Subjects: Democracy, Essays, Imperialism, Iraq War-2003, Militarism, Separation of powers, State laws, United Kingdom, United States
...humanitarian imperialism, aka Empire Lite. In numerous one...it assumes that the empires interest has a right...the goodness of their empire and, in this, the United States has indeed proved...then try to enter the United States to support their...deplore the British empires racism and the fraudulent...arguing that the way the empire dismantled itself after...
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America's Losers
Magazine article by Nancy Isenberg; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 35, Spring 2011
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...the confiscation of loyalist property, suppressing...imperial world that the loyalists inhabited. Maya Jasanoffs...pitfalls of seeing the loyalists through the distorted...war) to describe the loyalist diaspora after Lord...toward reconquering the United States. His loyalty...spread across the British Empire, changing it in the...
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The Adolescent Empire
Magazine article by James Kurth; The National Interest, Summer 1997
Subjects: Imperialism--International aspects, International relations--Analysis
...British conception of empire was that of the British...soul of the British Empire was loyal service to...Country. Much of the Empires legitimacy derived...loyal parts of the Empire even more attached to the monarchy; the more loyalist, the more royalist...called themselves the United Empire Loyalists. The centrality of...
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In the Shadow of Empire: Canada for Americans
Magazine article by Lukin Robinson; Monthly Review, Vol. 50, April 1999
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...the two countries is that the United States was created by a revolution...hundred years ago came north as United Empire Loyalists fleeing the revolution; their...After the First World War, the United States became our de facto imperial...
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newspaper articles on: United Empire Loyalists  - 29 results

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Brown Assembles Team to Take Top Jobs at No10; Key Loyalists in Place If Chancellor Becomes PM
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 7, 2005
Subjects: Brown, Gordon
...Assembles Team to Take Top Jobs at No10; Key Loyalists in Place If Chancellor Becomes PM. Byline...pre-emptive strike against Mr Browns empire-building. Mr Blair has already used...takeover, in case Mr Blair quit. Leeds United fan. Sue Nye, 48 Job now: Head of private...
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The Empire Struck Back; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENT
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 13, 2010
The Empire Struck Back; ANSWERS...to Canada. These loyalists settled in Quebec...Quebec border. The loyalists were given the nominal hereditary title UEL (United Empire Loyalist) by the British government...their antipathy to the United States provided the...
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The Empire Struck Back
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 13, 2010
The Empire Struck Back. Byline...to Canada. These loyalists settled in Quebec...Quebec border. The loyalists were given the nominal hereditary title UEL (United Empire Loyalist) by the British government...their antipathy to the United States provided the...
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We Don't like Prince Charles (or Yanks) but We Canadians Will Adore Kate
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), June 26, 2011
Subjects: William, Prince of the United Kingdom
...she reassured a crowd of 40,000 loyalists in Ottawa by declaring: I am not...bolstered by tens of thousands of Empire loyalists who fled post-independence America...far more powerful neighbour, the United States - a country with less land...
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FROM BARONESS NOBODY TO LADY LAUGHING STOCK; to Britain's Humiliation, the Woman No One Had Ever Heard of When She Was Made EU Foreign Minister Is an Even Greater Disaster Than Her Critics Feared. but on [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; March 6, 2010
Subjects: British foreign relations--Political aspects, Clinton, Hillary Rodham--Political activity, Foreign ministers--Political aspects, Political parties--United Kingdom
...size of her vast civil service empire -- was trying to undermine...taxpayer of Baroness Ashtons new empire. Millions of pounds of taxpayers...replace the UK and France in the United Nations Security Council...ministerial posts, even Labour loyalists were astonished when she became...
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encyclopedia articles on: United Empire Loyalists  - 15 results

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United Empire Loyalists
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS in Canadian history, name applied to those settlers who, loyal to...the Treaty of Paris had failed to make adequate provision for the Loyalists . Numbers estimated at up to 50,000 went to British North America...
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New York , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sea level. Nickname, Empire State. Motto, Excelsior Ever...Great Lakes and the midwestern United States as well as the only...1788) the Constitution of the United States at a convention in Poughkeepsie...By the end of the war many Loyalists had left New York; the emigrants...
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Georgia , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GEORGIA , state, United States , state in the SE United States, the last of...sea level. Nickname, Empire State of the South...half of the present United States and protested...equally divided into Loyalists and patriots during...patriots, exposed to Loyalist Florida on the south...
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New York , City, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Chrysler Building and Empire State Building ), and...City is the seat of the United Nations . Lincoln Center...is the largest in the United States. Major educational...many New Yorkers were Loyalists, Continental forces...first capital of the United States and was the state...
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Canada
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...greatest of all the empire builders in the west...Colonies (the future United States). In 1775...Quebec campaign ). Loyalists from the colonies in revolt (see United Empire Loyalists...disputed with the United States for a time...
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