Wallace, W. Stewart, 1884-1970 / 2008-07-26 00:00:00
EBOOK THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS ***
This etext was produced by Gardner Buchanan.
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
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.
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