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When the American War of Independence ended there were refugees, citizens who had supported the British. From 1776 onwards, some were driven out and some fled, seeking refuge in British territory. Nova Scotia had remained more or less loyal to Britain, though many of the inhabitants had come from New England. | When the American War of Independence ended there were refugees, citizens who had supported the British. From 1776 onwards, some were driven out and some fled, seeking refuge in British territory. Nova Scotia had remained more or less loyal to Britain, though many of the inhabitants had come from New England. | ||
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A recent background work, Ronald Rees’s ''Land of the Loyalists: Their Struggle to Shape the Maritimes'' (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2000), is reviewed in ''The Beaver'', April/May 2001, by retired history professor Ann Gorman Condon. She found it “the best popular history of the Loyalists I have read”, but wonders at the end “whether exiles, with their bitterness and longing for former homes, make good trailblazers.”<ref>Douglas, Althea. "New Brunswick Additional Loyalist Settlers and Records (National Institute)," ''The National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/New_Brunswick_Additional_Loyalist_Settlers_and_Records_%28National_Institute%29.</ref> | A recent background work, Ronald Rees’s ''Land of the Loyalists: Their Struggle to Shape the Maritimes'' (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2000), is reviewed in ''The Beaver'', April/May 2001, by retired history professor Ann Gorman Condon. She found it “the best popular history of the Loyalists I have read”, but wonders at the end “whether exiles, with their bitterness and longing for former homes, make good trailblazers.”<ref>Douglas, Althea. "New Brunswick Additional Loyalist Settlers and Records (National Institute)," ''The National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/New_Brunswick_Additional_Loyalist_Settlers_and_Records_%28National_Institute%29.</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:New Brunswick, Canada]] | [[Category:New Brunswick, Canada]] | ||