Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The History of Canada, Vol. 4
The first of these events is so closely connected with Canada, that it calls for a special narrative of what took place in connection with the province. Moreover it was the direct cause of the settle ment of Upper Canada by a British population; a fact which must be kept in view in the history of Ontario for the following seventy years. It created a dominant feeling in the minds of the first settlers and their children; of those who suffered to sustain the United Empire, the U. E. Loyalists, as their descendants proudly call themselves. These men sacrificed all they had in this world, and left behind them many of the associations which make life dear, to carve out of the woods a hard, toilsome existence, that they might live and die under the British ?ag; and they were not unhappy, for they acted up to their convictions, and from their sense of duty; and they retained in the greatest trial and privation, the proud feeling of unswerving self-respect.
The second period is constituted in the quarter of a century, during which the province of Canada, embracing the present provinces of Ontario and Quebec existed as a unity until 1867, when confederation of the whole of the British North American provinces took place: at which date the third period commences when British America became known as the Dominion of Canada.
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