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United Empire Loyalists
United Empire Loyalists Some 50,000 Americans who were loyal to the British king George III and who emigrated to Canada during the War of
INDEPENDENCE. By 1784 about 35,000 had settled in Nova Scotia and some 10,000 in the Upper St Lawrence valley and round Lake Ontario, an area designated Upper Canada (later Ontario) in 1791. They came mainly from New England and New York and among them were several distinguished loyalists, or Tories as they were called, as well as thousands of farmers and artisans. In 1789 the governor-general ordained that all who had arrived by 1783 could put “UE” for United Empire Loyalist after their and their descendants' names — later arrivals were called “Late Loyalists”. These “marks of honour” were treasured throughout the 19th century.
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Loyalist Ceasefire Precedes U.S. Visit: 25 Year Campaign Killed 1,000
Newspaper article from: Irish Voice; 10/25/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Dowd Irish Voice 10-25-1994 Loyalist Ceasefire Precedes U.S. Visit: 25 year Campaign Killed 1,000. A LOYALIST ceasefire ending a 25 year campaign...In their statement, the Combined Loyalist Military Command said that the Loyalist...
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Loyalist extremists call Ulster cease-fire
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/14/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...lies with them," the loyalists said. Gerry Adams...wing, welcomed the loyalist gesture and repeated...assassination. The loyalists issued their statement...young men belong to loyalist groups. Fewer than...setting underscored how loyalists, once assured of jobs...
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Loyalist killings suggest shift in Ulster
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/7/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Ireland have suggested loyalist paramilitary groups...forces in the world. Loyalists bragged of perfecting...said the recent loyalist campaign smacks...said Wilson. Loyalists have only recently...recent months, loyalists have kept a New...recently, the various loyalist groups -- the ...
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Loyalist women: "ripped from their homes".
Magazine article from: The Loyalist Gazette; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...known as United Empire Loyalists. There has always been...lives and experiences of Loyalist men in both their military...therefore suffered as Loyalist outcasts in areas of...political rift between Loyalists and Rebels widened...families with known Loyalist sympathies were subjected...
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Loyalist soldier display at Adolphustown (Loyalist Cultural Centre).
Magazine article from: The Loyalist Gazette; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...easy to picture the Loyalist boats making their way...band of United Empire Loyalists stepped ashore to receive...and interpretation of Loyalist settlement. Also located...is the United Empire Loyalist Memorial Cemetery...memory of Canada's Loyalists is the Museum of Applied...
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LOYALISTS APPEAR TO IMITATE IRA IN NORTHERN IRELAND.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 9/11/1993; 700+ words
; ...have suggested, loyalist paramilitary groups...forces inthe world. Loyalists bragged of perfecting...said the recent loyalist campaign smacks...said Wilson. Loyalists have only recently...recent months, loyalists have kept a New...recently, the various loyalist groups -- the Ulster...
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Loyalists Threaten Catholic Girls
Newspaper article from: Irish Voice; 9/11/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...11-2001 Loyalists Threaten Catholic...parents braved Loyalist death threats...close to the Loyalist Glenbryn housing estate. The Loyalists claim they have...protest because Loyalist paramilitaries...Later, the Loyalists claimed they...
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Loyalist political advances push the Northern Irish cease-fire. (Originated from NEWS ANALYSIS)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 10/15/1994; 700+ words
; ...sectarian nature of the loyalist campaign encouraged...people killed by loyalists in the past 25 years...The timing of the loyalist cease-fire revealed...recently reassured loyalists that they would...innocent people. The loyalist cease-fire is...armed campaign. The loyalists have ...
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Loyalists and the fur trade: the impact of the American revolution on western Canadian history.
Magazine article from: The Loyalist Gazette; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...onwards. (1) Recent Loyalist scholarship has...just how varied Loyalists were. Older school...Many were men, but Loyalists were also women...men serving with Loyalist regiments or openly...their better-known Loyalist ties, in the years...of the numbers of Loyalists and children of...
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Loyalists of Cape Breton.
Magazine article from: The Loyalist Gazette; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...been involved in surveying land for Loyalists in Quebec and when asked by Haldimand...Cape Breton's possibilities as a Loyalist refuge, Abraham Cuyler arrived in...was appointed inspector of refugee Loyalists in Quebec. Perhaps as a result of...
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Loyalists
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
LOYALISTS LOYALISTS were colonials who took the British...Press, 1974. Calhoon, Robert M. The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760...Hodges, Graham Russell. The Black Loyalist Directory. New York: Garland, 1996...
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The Loyalist Press
Book article from: American Eras
...Total 81 Newspapers. Fifteen Loyalist newspapers appeared at various...lived and most-popular Loyalist papers, including Hugh Gaine...provide a useful means by which Loyalists could lambast the Patriots...to the Crown. Themes. Loyalist propaganda addressed various...
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Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
...LVF) is an extreme loyalist group formed in 1996 as a faction of the mainstream loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force...explosives, typical of many loyalist groups. LVF attacks have...violent feud with other loyalists in which several individuals...
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United Empire Loyalists
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...EMPIRE LOYALISTS UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS was the name given to inhabitants...perhaps 100,000 United Empire Loyalists fled America during the revolutionary...BIBLIOGRAPHY Calhoon, Robert M. The Loyalists in Revolutionary America...British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774...
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loyalist
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...of a revolt. ∎ ( Loyalist ) a colonist of the American revolutionary...British cause. ∎ ( Loyalist ) a supporter of union between Great...Northern Ireland. ∎ ( Loyalist ) a supporter of the republic and opposer...
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