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United Empire Loyalists, by W. Stewart Wallace
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Title: The United Empire Loyalists A Chronicle of the Great Migration Volume 13 (of 32) in the series Chronicles of Canada
Author: W. Stewart Wallace
Release Date: April 9, 2004 [EBook #11977]
Language: English
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CHRONICLES OF CANADA Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton In thirty-two volumes
Volume 13
THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS A Chronicle of the Great Migration
By W. STEWART WALLACE TORONTO, 1914
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTORY II. LOYALISM IN THE THIRTEEN COLONIES III. PERSECUTION OF THE LOYALISTS IV. THE LOYALISTS UNDER ARMS V. PEACE WITHOUT HONOUR VI. THE EXODUS TO NOVA SCOTIA VII. THE BIRTH OF NEW BRUNSWICK VIII. IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND IX. THE LOYALISTS IN QUEBEC X. THE WESTERN SETTLEMENTS XI. COMPENSATION AND HONOUR XII. THE AMERICAN MIGRATION XIII. THE LOYALIST IN HIS NEW HOME BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
The United Empire Loyalists have suffered a strange fate at the hands of historians. It is not too much to say that for nearly a century their history was written by