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Lynn McGuire wrote:On 6/17/2024 5:26 PM, William Hyde wrote:Lynn McGuire wrote:On 6/16/2024 11:48 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:.>
The single trigger event is when George Washington exiled the 120,000
Loyalists to South Africa instead of Canada after the USA
Revolutionary war.
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But the vast majority of loyalists stayed behind, and played a role in
the politics of the new nation. The last laws against former
loyalists were repealed a few years after the war, though local
prejudice lasted much longer.
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And Canada certainly did not receive 100k of loyalist immigrants.
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> I had no idea that this really happened in the late 1700s.
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Not mentioned in high school history?
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William Hyde
https://www.britannica.com/topic/loyalist
But we didn't get 100k. After all, if you are a loyalist from Georgia,
do you really want to grow turnips in Upper Canada, or sugar in Jamaica?
And if you're a urban type from NY, do you chose Montreal or London?
When I was a kid there were still people who added "UE" to their names
as descendants of the loyalists. It's been a long while since I've seen
that, though.
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