 | While the Women Only Wept: Loyalist Refugee Women in Eastern Ontario Subjects: United Empire loyalists -- Ontario -- History; Women refugees -- Ontario -- History; Canada -- History -- 1763-1791; United States -- History -- Revolution 1775-1783; In While the Women Only Wept Janice Potter-MacKinnon traces the story of Loyalist women from their experiences in the American colonies as antagonism toward the British Crown increased, through their forced exodus from the colonies in the late 1770s and early 1780s, to their eventual settlement in eastern Ontario in the area around present-day Kingston. |
