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French Loyalist
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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— Hist.
a United Empire Loyalist of French-Canadian origin.
Quotations
1799
He had good reason to believe that the Messessagues were now well disposed to sell to Government a part of their land for the accommodation of those French Loyalists to whom His Majesty their common Father had given an asylum in Upper Canada.
1893
The Count de Puissaye, on the other hand, failed in his attempt to settle a colony of French loyalists.