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

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)

Previous to that time several Methodist ministers had visited the then growing town, through the earnest solicitations of Stephen Humbert, a United Empire Loyalist, who landed there on May 18th, 1783.

From William Black The Apostle of Methodism in the Maritime Provinces of Canada by Maclean, John

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

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)