, 214; Carleton continues occupation of New York
till all have left the country, 215, 216; their emigration to different
British provinces, 218; widows of, apply for pensions, 218, 219; effect
of their settlement in Canada, 221, 244, 248; increase of their numbers
in western Canada, 224; two distinct waves of emigration, 236;
settlements of at Niagara, and Sorel, 236, 237; claim representative
institutions, 237; those in Kingston district petition for church
establishments, 238; their destitute condition, 238; their political
weight underestimated by Dorchester, 248; the Seigniorial Tenure system
unsuited to, 256; Dorchester's suggestion for conferring distinction on,
260. =E= Extravagant land grants to, 144; Durham on, 144-145; settled
along Niagara River, 194. =MS= In the wilderness, 11. =R= Methodist
preachers in Upper Canada of Loyalist stock, 38; included many of the
influential families, 62; Ryerson's history of, 270, 274, 279. =H=
Emigrate to the loyal western colonies, 13, 17. =BL= Come to Maritime
Provinces and Canada, 4-5; their numbers and character, 5; in Lower
Canada, 17; support Common School Bill, 105; =Md= Dread possibility of
revolution, 20. =T= Severe treatment of, 3; they settle in Nova Scotia
and New Brunswick, 3-4, 35. =Hd= Come to Canada, 125; houses built for,
138, 182; military service of, 136, 137; at Niagara, 152; employed on
fortifications of Quebec, 183; in Vermont negotiations, 200, 202, 206;
at Cataraqui, 236, 265; Washington's severity towards, 249, 250;
arrangements for their reception in Canada, 250, 254; not less patriotic
than the opposite party, 251; brutal treatment of, 252; compared with
Jacobites, 253; Haldimand's care of, 254; lands allotted to, 255;
surveys made for, 263; flock into Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 263;
their advent viewed with alarm by French Canadians, 264; fed and clothed
by government for three years, 265; not fully appreciative of assistance
given, 266; difficulty of dealing with, 267-271, 348; some impostors
among, 268, 306. =Mc= Hardships suffered by, on account of
naturalization laws, 140-141; bills for their relief, 142-143. =Bib.=:
Sabine, _Loyalists of the American Revolution_; Ryerson, _Loyalists of
America_; Campbell, _Travels in North America_; Canniff, _The Settlement
of Upper Canada_; Casselman, _United Empire Loyalists of the County of
Dundas, Ontario_; Haight, _Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago_;
Bourinot, _Builders of Nova Scotia_; Frousac, _R