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THE UNITED EMPIRE LOYALISTS NE HUNDRED and Forty years of progress, prosperity, and history-making has passed since the United Empire Loyalists, because of their loyalty to the British Crown, gave up their homes and came to Canada to lay here the foundation of new homes and a new nation. The years have wiped away all bitterness or hatred once felt by the descendants of the banished or the descendants of those responsible for that banishment. For nearly a century the history of the United Empire Loyalists was written by their enemies, for English writers seemed almost to have ignored them. However, all this has been changed and American writers of a later school have written very kindly of the Loyalists, and their patriotic devotion and supreme courage have won recognition and approval while the differences which caused the migration are forgotten or mellowed by a kindly haze of sentiment. To Canadians, the sufferings, sacrifices and achievements of the United Empire Loyalists will always be recalled with pride and thanksgiving for this O Mayor 1924; PIONEER LOG CABIN In the earlier days of the settlement hoises wer e almost unknown and oxen were tha principal beasts of burden. Illustration from "Pioneer Life Among the Loyalists in Upper Canada" by W. S. Herrington, K.C.-- (The Mscmillan Co. of Canada, Toronto).