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

The peoples who had settled in Canada sprang from races which had always stood out strongly for national identity—the English glory in their historic past; the Scottish race, to which my forefathers belonged and which to some extent I represent, on this occasion, are noted for their love of country; and so with the other races which made up the United Empire Loyalist settlers of Upper Canada at the time of the War of 1812-14.

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

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The Hon. Richard Cartwright, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a United Empire Loyalist of English descent, who, soon after the breaking out of the Revolutionary War, emigrated, with his family, from the Province of New York to the wilderness of what soon afterwards became Upper Canada.

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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.

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About Eglinton the name of Snider is notable as that of a United Empire Loyalist family seated here, of German descent.

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