Chapter I: Front Matter

_CHRONICLES OF CANADA_
Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton
In thirty-two volumes

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THE UNITED EMPIRE
LOYALISTS

BY W. STEWART WALLACE

_Part IV_
_The Beginnings of British Canada_

From the National Portrait Gallery]

THE
UNITED EMPIRE
LOYALISTS

A Chronicle of the Great Migration

BY
W. STEWART WALLACE

TORONTO
GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY
1920

_Copyright in all Countries subscribing to
the Berne Convention_

PRESS OF THE HUNTER-ROSE CO., LIMITED, TORONTO

CONTENTS

Page

I. INTRODUCTORY 1

II. LOYALISM IN THE THIRTEEN COLONIES 7

III. PERSECUTION OF THE LOYALISTS 20

IV. THE LOYALISTS UNDER ARMS 32

V. PEACE WITHOUT HONOUR 45

VI. THE EXODUS TO NOVA SCOTIA 53

VII. THE BIRTH OF NEW BRUNSWICK 71

VIII. IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND 86

IX. THE LOYALISTS IN QUEBEC 91

X. THE WESTERN SETTLEMENTS 97

XI. COMPENSATION AND HONOUR 112

XII. THE AMERICAN MIGRATION 120

XIII. THE LOYALIST IN HIS NEW HOME 127

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE 138

INDEX 143

ILLUSTRATIONS

GEORGE III _Frontispiece_
From the National Portrait Gallery.

LORD CORNWALLIS _Facing page_ 46
From the National Portrait Gallery.

UPPER AND LOWER CANADA AND THE MARITIME PROVINCES AT
THE TIME OF THE LOYALIST SETTLEMENTS ” 52
Map by Bartholomew.

THE FIRST GOVERNMENT HOUSE, FREDERICTON—BUILT 1787 ” 80

FACSIMILE OF CARD USED IN THE FIRST NEW BRUNSWICK
ELECTION, 1785 ” 82

SIR FREDERICK HALDIMAND ” 98
After a contemporary painting.

JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE ” 122
From the bust in Exeter Cathedral.