[Magdalen] so we're sitting by the pool

[Molly Wolf]

Nova Scotia stayed British because the British had a death grip on Halifax. Numerous of the other settlements like Lunenberg were foreign Protestant (German/Swiss/French) under British proprietors.  And the Scots stayed loyal.

The Loyalists in Nova Scotia were johnny-come-latelies to folk from New England who'd taken over vacated Acadian lands.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Feb 27, 2017, at 11:55 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Because though there were some Loyalists, there were a ton more Scots and Irish and British living a different history.
> 
> Marion, a pilgrim
> 
> 
>> On 2/27/2017 11:09 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
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>> In a message dated 2/27/2017 12:50:09 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> lupa at kos.net writes:
>> 
>> Nova  Scotia had little Loyalist settlement.  The Loyalists mistrusted Nova
>>  Scotia, which had strong alliances with Massachusetts, and the Nova
>> Scotians  regarded the Loyalists as a bunch of whining wimps.  There was some
>> Loyalist settlement in Shelburne, but mostly they fetched up in New Brunswick
>> and Upper Canada (now Ontario), where they received land grants.
>> Gananoque, where I live, was founded by  Loyalists.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>    I've always wondered why the Maritimes were not included with the 13 states
>> in the American Revolution.  Were they just too Tory, or what?
>>  There are ten Strang families on PEI and many more in New Brunswick and
>> Nova Scotia, and they are all relatives.  I understand that the  Ontario
>> Niagara
>> Peninsula, in particular, was heavily settled by Loyalists.
>>          David S.
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