ed and obliging
librarian, Mr. Todd.

"In addition to all the works relating to the subject which I could
collect in Europe and America, I spent, two years since, several
months in the Library of the British Museum, employing the
assistance of an amanuensis, in verifying quotations and making
extracts from works not to be found elsewhere, in relation
especially to unsettled questions involved in the earlier part of
my history.

"I have entirely sympathized with the Colonists in their
remonstrances, and even use of arms, in defence of British
constitutional rights, from 1763 to 1776; but I have been compelled
to view the proceedings of the Revolutionists and their treatment
of the Loyalists in a very different light.

"After having compared the conduct of the two parties during the
Revolution, the exile of the Loyalists from their homes after the
close of the War, and their settlement in the British Provinces, I
have given a brief account of the government of each Province, and
then traced the alleged and real causes of the War of 1812-1815,
together with the courage, sacrifice, and patriotism of Canadians,
both English and French, in defending our country against eleven
successive American invasions, when the population of the two
Canadas was to that of the United States as one to twenty-seven,
and the population of Upper Canada (the chief scene of the War) was
as one to one hundred and six. Our defenders, aided by a few
English regiments, were as handfuls, little Spartan bands, in
comparison of the hosts of the invading armies; and yet at the end
of two years, as well as at the end of the third and last year of
the War, not an invader's foot found a place on the soil of Canada.

"I undertook this work not self-moved and with no view to profit;
and if I receive no pecuniary return from this work, on which I
have expended no small labour and means, I shall have the
satisfaction of having done all in my power to erect an historical
monument to the character and merits of the fathers and founders of
my native country."

E. RYERSON.

"TORONTO, Sept. 24th, 1879."

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION.--TWO CLASSES OF EMIGRANTS--TWO GOVERNMENTS FOR SEVENTY
YEARS--THE PILGRIM FATHERS, THEIR PILGRIMAGES AND SETTLEMENT.

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