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

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 Archer Butler Hulbert

The most pugnacious United Empire Loyalist that ever trekked from the American colonies to Ontario and Nova Scotia and New Brunswick would hardly deny that Canada was grossly misgoverned under the French régime.

From The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

The solid kernel was of United Empire Loyalist stock, which gave the province its distinctive character.

From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by Archibald MacMechan

His father came to Canada about 1783, from the adjoining provinces,—a United Empire Loyalist, and became wealthy.

From Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Sir J. M. (James MacPherson) Le Moine

He was, therefore, not a "Yankee Methodist," but a United Empire Loyalist.

From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by J. George (John George) Hodgins