HIS312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lower Canada, Boston King, Thirteen Colonies

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Introduction sudden influx because of american revoluton, 1770-80s. Colonial/british possessions were shrinking at this point. In the eyes of the british, canada became much more important. People fleed the battlegrounds of the american revolution, people who moved away from the fighting, moved into quebec, and we call these people the loyalist (migration) Loyalist pride: canada"s first refugees who came out of a war-torn region often living through tremendous turmoil and hardship and finding some security at last, note on sources: Abundant, partly because they interacted with government, military operations; we have war department records to go on. Also we have a rich source inthe loyalist claims since it was possible for loyalists to ask the. British government for compensation for property they"d lost/had to give up during the war and the. Some of the loyalists were educated and wrote letters to relatives back home in the states. They were celebrated, people were proud of their status uel.

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