CONTENTS

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I.INTRODUCTORY[1]
II.LOYALISM IN THE THIRTEEN COLONIES[7]
III.PERSECUTION OF THE LOYALISTS[20]
IV.THE LOYALISTS UNDER ARMS[32]
V.PEACE WITHOUT HONOUR[45]
VI.THE EXODUS TO NOVA SCOTIA[53]
VII.THE BIRTH OF NEW BRUNSWICK[71]
VIII.IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND[86]
IX.THE LOYALISTS IN QUEBEC[91]
X.THE WESTERN SETTLEMENTS[97]
XI.COMPENSATION AND HONOUR[112]
XII.THE AMERICAN MIGRATION[120]
XIII.THE LOYALIST IN HIS NEW HOME[127]
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE[138]
INDEX[143]

ILLUSTRATIONS

GEORGE III[Frontispiece]
From the National Portrait Gallery.
LORD CORNWALLISFacing page[46]
From the National Portrait Gallery.
UPPER AND LOWER CANADA AND THE MARITIME PROVINCES AT THE TIME OF THE LOYALIST SETTLEMENTS”[52]
Map by Bartholomew.
THE FIRST GOVERNMENT HOUSE, FREDERICTON—BUILT 1787”[80]
FACSIMILE OF CARD USED IN THE FIRST NEW BRUNSWICK ELECTION, 1785”[82]
SIR FREDERICK HALDIMAND”[98]
After a contemporary painting.
JOHN GRAVES SIMCOE”[122]
From the bust in Exeter Cathedral.

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY

The United Empire Loyalists have suffered a strange fate at the hands of historians. It is not too much to say that for nearly a century their history was written by their enemies. English writers, for obvious reasons, took little pleasure in dwelling on the American Revolution, and most of the early accounts were therefore American in their origin. Any one who takes the trouble to read these early accounts will be struck by the amazing manner in which the Loyalists are treated. They are either ignored entirely or else they are painted in the blackest colours.

So vile a crew the world ne’er saw before,