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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Example Sentences

He was one of the United Empire Loyalist refugees, and received a grant of land on the Humber, near the site of the modern village of Weston.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

At his home, between Queenston and St. David's, dwelt a United Empire Loyalist, James Secord, recovering from dangerous wounds received in the battle of Queenston Heights.

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)

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 Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. by Curzon, Sarah Anne

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)

Son of a United Empire Loyalist; born at Schenectady, on the Mohawk.

From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various