United Empire Loyalists
Author : Nick Mika
Publisher : Belleville, Ont. : Mika Publishing Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Nick Mika
Publisher : Belleville, Ont. : Mika Publishing Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 39,51 MB
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Peter C Newman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1451686153
Esteemed Canadian author Peter C. Newman recounts the dramatic journey of the United Empire Loyalists—their exodus from America, their resettlement in the wilds of British North America, and their defense of what would prove to be the social and moral foundation of Canada. In 1776, tensions in the British colonies were reaching a fever pitch. The citizenry was divided between those who wished to establish a new republic and those who remained steadfast in their dedication to the British Empire. As the tensions inevitably boiled over into violence, fault lines were exposed as every person was forced to choose a side. Neighbours turned against each other. Families divided. Borders were redrawn. The conflict was long and bloody, and no side emerged unscathed. But there is one story that is often overlooked in the American Revolutionary canon. When the smoke from the battles had settled, tens of thousands of individuals who had remained loyal to the crown in the conflict found themselves without a home to return to. Destitute, distraught, and ostracized—or downright terrorized—by their former citizens, these Loyalists turned to the only place they had left to go: north. The open land of British North America presented the Loyalists with an opportunity to establish a new community distinct from the new American republic. But the journey to their new homes was far from easy. Beset by dangers at every turn—from starvation to natural disaster to armed conflict—the Loyalists migrated towards the promise of a new future. Their sacrifices set the groundwork for a country that would be completely unlike any other. Neither fully American nor truly British, the Loyalists established a worldview entirely of their own making, one that valued steady, peaceful, and pragmatic change over radical revolution. The Loyalists toiled tirelessly to make their dream a reality. And as the War of 1812 dawned, they proved they were willing to defend it with their very lives. In Hostages to Fortune, Peter C. Newman recounts the expulsion and migration of these brave Loyalists. In his inimitable style, Newman shines a light on the people, places, and events that set the stage for modern Canada.
Author : Justus Alonzo Griffin
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 1865
Category : United Empire loyalists
ISBN :
Author : United Empire Loyalists' Association of Ontario
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,45 MB
Release : 1897
Category :
ISBN :
Author : United Empire Loyalists Centennial Committee (Toronto, Ont.)
Publisher : Baltimore, Md. : Genealogical Publishing Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Adolphustown (Ont.)
ISBN :
Author : Janet B. Uren
Publisher :
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 2009
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : 9780973066715
Author : William Stewart Wallace
Publisher :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 1914
Category : American Confederate voluntary exiles
ISBN :
Author : Brenda Dougall Merriman
Publisher : Campbellville, Ont. : Global Heritage Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
Ontario was known as "Upper Canada" from 1791 to 1841.
Author : John Thomas Waugh
Publisher : [Buffalo] : Published under the direction of the Committee on Publications, on the Roswell Park Publication Fund
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 1926
Category : American loyalists
ISBN :
Author : W. Stewart Wallace
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 2017-07-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781973864851
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 their enemies. English writers, for obvious reasons, took little pleasure in dwelling on the American Revolution, and most of the early accounts were therefore American in their origin. Any one who takes the trouble to read these early accounts will be struck by the amazing manner in which the Loyalists are treated. They are either ignored entirely or else they are painted in the blackest colours. So vile a crew the world ne'er saw before, And grant, ye pitying heavens, it may no more! If ghosts from hell infest our poisoned air, Those ghosts have entered these base bodies here. So sang a ballad-monger of the Revolution; and the opinion which he voiced persisted after him. According to some American historians of the first half of the nineteenth century, the Loyalists were a comparatively insignificant class of vicious criminals, and the people of the American colonies were all but unanimous in their armed opposition to the British government.