United Empire Loyalists in the Niagara Peninsula
Description
- Creators
- John Burtniak, Editor
- Wesley B. Turner, Editor
- Irene Stevens, Editor
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Books
- Description
- Full Title : United Empire Loyalists in the Niagara Peninsula, Proceedings, Sixth Annual Niagara Peninsula History Conference.
Book; 61 pages. This book is a combination of academic papers from the sixth annual Niagara Peninsula History Conference held at Brock University. These papers discuss the impact of the large scale immigration of loyalists from the newly created United States to Upper Canada in the 18th and 19th centuries. They also discuss how these “newcomers laid the foundation for a new english speaking colony west of the settled areas of Quebec, thus injecting a new vitality into the economy an initiating far-reaching constitutional and political changes.”
- Notes
- -The first paper focuses on the loyalist experience in the United States, specifically their persecution (pg. 13 picture depicting someone being tar and feathered).
- The third paper specifically focuses on the united empire Loyalists of New Brunswick
- Map of the Revolutionary frontier on page 17
- Proclamation of governor John Simcoe on page 36
- Map of Niagara on the Lake on last 2 pages (103,104) - Date of Publication
- 29 Apr 1984
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- R. Arthur Bowler William A. Smy Allan R. Currey Elizabeth Hancocks Charles G. Roland John Burtniak
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.25012 Longitude: -79.06627 -
New Brunswick, Canada
Latitude: 45.25935 Longitude: -66.03774
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Niagara-on-the-Lake Public LibraryEmail:localhistory@notlpl.org
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