The Crown land in Canada set aside…

1783 CE

The Crown land in Canada set aside for the Loyalists is sometimes allotted according to which Loyalist regiment a man had fought in.

This Loyalist resettlement is critical to the development of present-day Ontario, and some ten thousand refugees go to Quebec (including the Eastern Townships and modern-day Ontario), but Nova Scotia (including modern-day New Brunswick) receives three times that number: about thirty-three thousand Loyalist refugees.

These include some three thousand formerly enslaved Black Loyalists, who had gained freedom from the British for working with them during the war.

At the same time, some white Loyalists in Nova Scotia had brought their slaves with them, and will hold them until slavery is abolished in 1834.

Prince Edward Island received two thousand refugees.

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