Loyalist migration to Canada
1783–1790 · Event
Tens of thousands who chose the losing side of the American Revolution — Black Loyalists among them — resettle in Nova Scotia and the future Ontario, anglophone Canada's founding wave.
On these timelines: Canada, American Revolution, Master, British Empire, USA
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Around 1783
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