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United Empire Loyalists : pioneers of Upper Canada / Nick and Helma Mika.
- Title
- United Empire Loyalists : pioneers of Upper Canada / Nick and Helma Mika.
- Author
- Mika, Nick, 1912-
- Publication
- Belleville, Ont. : Mika Pub. Co., 1976.
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| Text | Request in advance | F1058 .M59 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Mika, Helma
- Description
- 256 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 246-247.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword -- Loyalists -- The beginning of a new era -- The fortune hunters -- The colonists and English laws -- The Stamp Act -- The Boston Massacre -- The Boston Tea Party -- Quebec Act, 1774 -- Colonists take a stand -- The first continental congress -- Early persecution of the Loyalists -- Early activities of the Loyalists -- The opposing groups -- First bloody confrontation -- First mass exodus of Loyalists -- Invasion of Canada -- True Loyalists -- Loyalists begin to fight -- Movement toward independence -- Intensified persecution -- British troops in New York -- General Burgoyne's expedition -- Provincial regiments -- The fighting spirit of Loyalists -- Migration to Canada -- Peace without honour -- Loyalist's last stronghold -- Preparations for the settlement of Loyalists -- Pre-Loyalist settlements -- Loyalists journey to new settlements -- Survey of townships -- The Indian Loyalists -- The allocation of land -- The Royal Townships -- Cataraqui settlement -- Kingston Township -- Ernestown Township -- Adolphustown Township -- Marysburgh Township -- Sophiasburgh Township -- Ameliasburgh Township -- Sidney Township -- Thurlow Township -- Richmond Township -- Western settlements -- Clearing the land and the first home -- Early mills -- The hungry years -- Life on the pioneer farm -- Religious life -- Simcoe years -- Early days in Upper Canada.
- ISBN
- 0919303099
- LCCN
- ^^^76382540^
- OCLC
- 2883366
- SCSB-11384343
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library