This Unfriendly Soil: The Loyalist Experience in Nova Scotia, 1783-1791
ISBN: 9780773562189
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: United Empire loyalists -- Nova Scotia; Nova Scotia -- History -- 1784–1867;

Following the American Revolution, more than 20,000 loyalists fled to Nova Scotia, doubling the population in a single year. Neil MacKinnon provides the first detailed account of this great wave of immigrants, their exodus and settlement, their adjustment to the new land, and their effect upon its people and institutions.


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