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

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 Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

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)

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)

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)