The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration [1920 ed.]Wallace, W. Stewart (William Stewart)
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The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration [1920 ed.]
Wallace, W. Stewart (William Stewart)
American loyalists; United Empire loyalists
For the settlements in Upper and Lower Canada, the most important source
is the Haldimand Papers, which are fully calendared in the Reports of
the Canadian Archives from 1884 to 1889. J. McIlwraith, _Sir Frederick
Haldimand_ (1904), contains a chapter on ‘The Loyalists’ which is based
upon these papers. The most important secondary source is William
Canniff, _History of the Settlement of Upper Canada_ (1869), a book
the value of which is seriously diminished by lack of reference to
authorities, and by a slipshod style, but which contains a vast amount
of material preserved nowhere else. Among local histories reference may
be made to C. M. Day, _Pioneers of the Eastern Townships_ (1863), James
Croil, _Dundas_ (1861), and J. F. Pringle, _Lunenburgh or the Old Eastern
District_ (1891). An interesting essay in local history is L. H. Tasker,
_The United Empire Loyalist Settlement at Long Point, Lake Erie_ (Ontario
Historical Society, Papers and Records, II). For the later immigration
reference should be made to D. C. Scott, _John Graves Simcoe_ (1905), and
Ernest Cruikshank, _Immigration from the United States Into Upper Canada,
1784-1812_ (Proceedings of the Thirty-ninth Convention of the Ontario
Educational Association, 263).
An authoritative account of the proceedings of the commissioners
appointed to inquire into the losses of the Loyalists is to be found in
J. E. Wilmot, _Historical View of the Commission for Inquiry Into the
Losses, Services, and Claims of the American Loyalists_ (1815).
For the social history of the Loyalist settlements a useful book
is A ‘Canuck’ (M. G. Scherk), _Pen Pictures of Early Pioneer Life
in Upper Canada_ (1905). Many interesting notes on social history
will be found also in accounts of travels such as the Duc de la
Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, _Travels through the United States of North
America, the Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada_ (1799), _The
Diary of Mrs John Graves Simcoe_ (edited by J. Ross Robertson, 1911), and
_Canadian Letters: Description of a Tour thro’ the Provinces of Lower
and Upper Canada in the Course of the Years 1792 and ’93_ (The Canadian
Antiquarian and Numismatic Journal, IX, 3 and 4).
An excellent index to unprinted materials relating to the Loyalists is
Wilfred Campbell, _Report on Manuscript Lists Relating to the United
Empire Loyalists, with Reference to Other Sources_ (1909).
See also in this Series: _The Father of British Canada; The War Chief of
the Six Nations_.
INDEX
Adams, John, a social comparison, 16;
on strength of Loyalists, 17-18;
favours compensating the Loyalists, 46.
Allen, Lieut.-Col. Isaac, on New Brunswick, 72.
American Revolution, Lecky on, 2;
merely a phase of English party politics, 7;
not a war of social classes, 16;
one-third of the people opposed to measures of, 18;
‘fratricidal butchery’ in, 38;
end of, 45.
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