United Empire Loyalist

British  

noun

1. Canadian history any of the American colonists who settled in Canada during or after the War of American Independence because of loyalty to the British Crown

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United Empire Loyalist

How such an invitation fell on United Empire Loyalist ears may be guessed.

From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

He was too weak himself to go by night and forewarn Fitzgibbons, but his wife, Laura Ingersoll, a woman of some thirty years, was also of the old United Empire Loyalist stock.

From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

It is difficult at the present time to realize the hardships and appreciate the conditions under which these United Empire Loyalist settlers began life in the forest of 1784.

From History of Farming in Ontario by James, C. C. (Charles Canniff)

His father was a United Empire Loyalist who had held some command in a volunteer regiment of New Jersey.

From Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by Putnam, J. Harold

Here, seventy years before President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, the first United Empire Loyalist Parliament, like the embattled farmers at Concord, "fired a shot heard round the world."

From The Niagara River by Hulbert, Archer Butler