[Magdalen] so we're sitting by the pool

[Charles Wohlers]

My sense also is that the Atlantic Provinces had been more recently settled 
by the British (altho the French had been there much longer) and didn't have 
the history of self-government the American colonies had. The American 
colonies were largely settled by yeomen farmers who had been essentially 
left to their own devices for a long time - over 150 years in the cases of 
Massachusetts & Virginia. They did not appreciate laws and taxes being 
imposed on them from afar, all of a sudden.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Molly Wolf
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2017 12:14 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] so we're sitting by the pool

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:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>