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United Empire loyalists

  • The way lies north
    Author:
    Baxter, Jean Rae
    Summary:

    This young adult historical novel focuses on Charlotte and her family, Loyalists who are forced to flee their home in the Mohawk Valley as a result of the violence of the “Sons of Liberty” during the American Revolution. At the...
  • The Loyalist's Wife
    Author:
    Cougler, Elaine
    Summary:

    When American colonists resort to war against Britain and her colonial attitudes, a young couple caught in the crossfire must find a way to survive. Pioneers in the wilds of New York State, John and Lucy face a bitter separation and the...
  • The loyal refugees
    Author:
    Smith, A. G., Livesey, Robert
    Summary:

    The Discovering Canada series presents information, stories and activities to make Canadian history interesting to young people. Each of the eleven illustrated books focuses on a theme in Canadian history and includes primary source...
  • The hollow tree
    Author:
    Lunn, Janet Louise Swoboda
    Summary:

    "The third novel in the trio that began with 'The Root Cellar' and 'Shadow in Hawthorn Bay.' This is the unforgettable tale of a young girl who escapes to Canada during the American Revolutionary War, who will...
  • North to Bondage Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes
    Author:
    Whitfield, Harvey Amani
    Summary:

    Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring escaped slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, many Loyalist families brought slaves with them when they...
  • Hope's journey
    Author:
    Baxter, Jean Rae
    Summary:

    The fifth volume in the “Forging a Nation” series begins in 1791. The year a new province is created in the country that will one day be called Canada. The year Hope Cobman’s life turns around. At thirteen, she must leave the orphanage...
  • Hope restored : the American Revolution and the founding of New Brunswick
    Author:
    Dallison, Robert L.
    Summary:

    Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England, including the Planters who, some twenty years earlier, had taken over...
  • Freedom bound
    Author:
    Baxter, Jean Rae
    Summary:

    In this, the final instalment of Jean Rae Baxter's best-selling young adult trilogy, eighteen-year-old Charlotte sails from Canada to Charleston in the beleaguered Thirteen Colonies to join her new husband Nick. During these final...
  • Broken trail
    Author:
    Baxter, Jean Rae
    Summary:

    Broken Trail is the story a thirteen-year-old white boy, the son of United Empire Loyalists, who has been captured and adopted by the Oneida people. Striving to find his vision oki that will guide him in his quest to become a warrior,...
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