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Author Wilson, Bruce G.

Title As she began : an illustrated introduction to Loyalist Ontario / by Bruce Wilson
Published Toronto [Ont.] : Dundurn Press, 1981

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Description 1 online resource (125 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction; 1. Who were the Loyalists?; 2. The Loyalist War out of Canada; 3. Resettlement in the St. Lawrence-Bay of Quinte Region; 4. Resettlement in Niagara and the Western Peninsula; 5. The Colony begins to grow; Notes; Note on Sources; Illustration index and credits
Summary As She Began, an illustrated introduction to Loyalist Ontario, provides a general guide to tAhe most crucial period in Ontario's history, 1775 to 1800, when thousands of refugees from the American Revolution streamed into the land between the lakes, giving Ontario its geographic shape and political destiny. Concentrating on the personal and social aspect of the loyalist migration, Bruce Wilson looks at the origins, the background, the motives, and the later successes of themen and women who were on the losing side of a civil war and were forced to start life over again in a wilderness. As She Be
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 123)
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Subject United Empire loyalists -- History
HISTORY -- General.
United Empire loyalists
SUBJECT Ontario -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85094823
Subject Ontario
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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